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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

Franz Kafka

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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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself

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