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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.

Franz Kafka

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
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
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
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
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
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Dream Myself Night Remember Yourself
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
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
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World

You misinterpret everything, even the silence.

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