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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

Franz Kafka

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True

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