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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Franz Kafka

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
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
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
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
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
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
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

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