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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

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
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
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
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
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
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom 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
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
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
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth

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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