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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

You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand
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
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
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet

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