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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

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
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need 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
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
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
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
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
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
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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