Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Paths are made by walking
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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