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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

Franz Kafka

No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself
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
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
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
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
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

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