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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Franz Kafka

I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
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.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
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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Feeling Forever Hands Myself Thinking
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
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself

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