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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

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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
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
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
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA

Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Feeling Forever Hands Myself Thinking
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
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKA

Light Myself 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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself

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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