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Franz Kafka

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
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
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
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
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner

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