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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.

Franz Kafka

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
FRANZ KAFKA

Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA

Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKA

Doubt Guilty Myself Principle

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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