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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

Franz Kafka

The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
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
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
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
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
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
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
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace 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
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
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
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
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
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
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
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
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

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