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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

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
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
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World 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
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
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.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man

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