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

Franz Kafka

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
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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Explanation Myself Understand
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
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
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Angel Hell Myself Sing
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word

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