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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

Franz Kafka

Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Angel Hell Myself Sing
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
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
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
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
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
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

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

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