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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

Franz Kafka

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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need 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
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
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
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
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
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
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
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy 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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
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

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