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

Franz Kafka

First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
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
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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 have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance

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