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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.

Franz Kafka

Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
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
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
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness 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
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
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.

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