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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Franz Kafka

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

Moments Myself Worth
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
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKA

Deep Evil Man Walk
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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Appearance One Liner
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
FRANZ KAFKA

Angel Hell Myself Sing
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKA

Inspirational Philosophy
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
FRANZ KAFKA

Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
FRANZ KAFKA

Beyond Inspirational Return
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKA

Book Philosophy Yourself
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKA

Deep Kill Myself One Liner
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKA

Love Yourself
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
FRANZ KAFKA

Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKA

Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKA

Light Myself Yourself
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
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand

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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