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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.

Franz Kafka

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
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
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
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
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
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
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
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word

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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