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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.

Franz Kafka

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
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
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return

I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.

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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.

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