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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

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper 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
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
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
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 are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure

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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