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.
FRANZ KAFKAIn 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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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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