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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.

Franz Kafka

In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
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
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
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
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
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
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
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
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth

For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.

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