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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
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
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 am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
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
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing

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