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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Franz Kafka

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.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
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
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Feeling Forever Hands Myself 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
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True

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