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Franz Kafka

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
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

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