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First impressions are always unreliable.

Franz Kafka

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
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
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence 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
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
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
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
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
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

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