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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

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
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
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
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
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper 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
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
FRANZ KAFKA

Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKA

Art Patience Sin

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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