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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
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
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy

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