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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.

Franz Kafka

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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
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
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself

Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.

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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.

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