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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

I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
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
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search 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

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