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

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
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
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
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
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
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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