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

Franz Kafka

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKA

Feeling Happiness Myself True
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.
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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
Books are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKA

Book One Liner
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKA

Death Himself Kill Philosophy
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKA

Myself Reading Time
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
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
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’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
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself

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