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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

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
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
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
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 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 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
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
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
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
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True

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.

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