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Franz Kafka

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
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
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
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 have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
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
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong

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