First impressions are always unreliable.
FRANZ KAFKA
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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