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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
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 non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA

Book One Liner Sea
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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
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
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
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
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
FRANZ KAFKA

Deep Myself Yourself

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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