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

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
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
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 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
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
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
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
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
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself

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

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