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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafka

Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
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
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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
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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Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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