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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Franz Kafka

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
FRANZ KAFKA

Escape Forget Myself
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA

Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
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 are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
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
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up

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