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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.

Franz Kafka

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
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Animal Himself Light Music
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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

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