Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
FRANZ KAFKAIt 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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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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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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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