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The meaning of life is that it stops.

Franz Kafka

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
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
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
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
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
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World 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
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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.
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Possible Quite Yourself
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
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
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy

The meaning of life is that it stops.

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