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

Franz Kafka

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Angel Hell Myself Sing
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin

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