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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.

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
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKA

Deep Material Need Philosophy
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
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
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
FRANZ KAFKA

Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKA

Ourselves People Present

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