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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Franz Kafka

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
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 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
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
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
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
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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

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