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

Franz Kafka

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
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
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
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
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
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself

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