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

Franz Kafka

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
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
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
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
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 can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
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
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
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 miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself

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

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