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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.

Franz Kafka

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
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’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
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
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
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.

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