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

Franz Kafka

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
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
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
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
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Angel Hell Myself Sing

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