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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.

Franz Kafka

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
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
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
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
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
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
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
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
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World

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