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First impressions are always unreliable.

Franz Kafka

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
FRANZ KAFKA

Explanation Myself Understand
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
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Possible Quite Yourself
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKA

Deep Material Need Philosophy
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
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
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
First impressions are always unreliable.
FRANZ KAFKA

Appearance One Liner
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World

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