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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.

Franz Kafka

I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
FRANZ KAFKA

Health Myself Thinking Yourself
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
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
FRANZ KAFKA

Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
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
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
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
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself

I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.

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