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

Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success

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