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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 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.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
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
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
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

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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