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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

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
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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
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
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
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
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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
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
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
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
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner

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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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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