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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

Franz Kafka

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
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
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
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Life Material Poetry Way Willing 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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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

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