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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Franz Kafka

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
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.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
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
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
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
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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