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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
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
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
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
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Dream Myself Night Remember Yourself
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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Feeling Forever Hands Myself Thinking
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
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
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present

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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