He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKAYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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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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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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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