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Franz Kafka

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
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 are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
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
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
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

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