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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

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
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
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
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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