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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Franz Kafka

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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
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
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Feeling Forever Hands Myself Thinking
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
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Dream Myself Night Remember Yourself
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Angel Hell Myself Sing
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
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

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