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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Franz Kafka

No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
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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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
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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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Animal Himself Light Music
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World

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