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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Franz Kafka

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
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
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
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 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
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
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’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man

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