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

Franz Kafka

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
FRANZ KAFKA

Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
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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Myself Suffering 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
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
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
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself

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