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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka

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
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
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
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself
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
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
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
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
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
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
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
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea

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