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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

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
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
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
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 dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
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
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
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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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World

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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