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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

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
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
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
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
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
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
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World

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