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

Franz Kafka

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
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
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
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
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
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
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
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
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
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand

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

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