Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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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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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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