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Franz Kafka

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
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
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
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up

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