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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Franz Kafka

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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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
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
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
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
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
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure

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