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

Franz Kafka

They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
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
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
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
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
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
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
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
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

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

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