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Franz Kafka

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
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
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
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
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
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
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
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity 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

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