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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

Franz Kafka

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
FRANZ KAFKA

Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKA

Inspirational Philosophy
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA

Book One Liner Sea
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
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
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
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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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA

Evil One Liner

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