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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

Franz Kafka

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
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
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
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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Stupidity Talk Understand
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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Eyes Mindset Myself Ourselves Photograph Story
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
Books are a narcotic.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

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