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Franz Kafka

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
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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Dream Myself Night Remember Yourself
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Animal Himself Light Music
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing

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