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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Franz Kafka

You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
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
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
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
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
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
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word

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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