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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.

Franz Kafka

No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World 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
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
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
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself

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