This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
FRANZ KAFKAIn 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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Books are a narcotic.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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