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

Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
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
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
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
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
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 miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself
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

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