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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.

Franz Kafka

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
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
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Life Material Poetry Way Willing 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
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
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
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
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True

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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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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