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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Franz Kafka

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
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
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
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
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
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
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
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKA

Deep Kill Myself One Liner

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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