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

Franz Kafka

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love 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
No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
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
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand
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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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy

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

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