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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

Franz Kafka

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
FRANZ KAFKA

Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
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
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
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
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
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Eyes Mindset Myself Ourselves Photograph Story
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
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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Angel Hell Myself Sing
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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