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

Franz Kafka

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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
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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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
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
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
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy

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