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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Franz Kafka

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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Animal Himself Light Music
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA

Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
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
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
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Eyes Mindset Myself Ourselves Photograph Story
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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