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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make

Franz Kafka

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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
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
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
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
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love 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

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