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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Franz Kafka

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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
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
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
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
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 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
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
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
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 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.
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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet

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