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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

Franz Kafka

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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
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
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
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
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
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

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