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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Franz Kafka

Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
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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Animal Himself Light Music
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
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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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
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
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present

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