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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

Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Angel Hell Myself Sing
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness 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.
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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity

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