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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

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
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Eyes Mindset Myself Ourselves Photograph Story
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
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 am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
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
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand

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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