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

Franz Kafka

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
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
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
No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing

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