What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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.
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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.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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