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

Franz Kafka

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKA

Inspirational Philosophy
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
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’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 do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Animal Himself Light Music
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
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
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
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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

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