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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.

Franz Kafka

I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Feeling Forever Hands Myself Thinking
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
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
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
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Eyes Mindset Myself Ourselves Photograph Story
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
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
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 am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
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

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