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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Franz Kafka

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
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
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
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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 lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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