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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Franz Kafka

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Dream Myself Night Remember Yourself
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
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
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
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
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
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself 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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
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
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk

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