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

Franz Kafka

The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
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
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
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
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
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
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing

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