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The limited circle is pure.

Franz Kafka

It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
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
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Dream Myself Night Remember Yourself
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
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
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
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

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