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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.

Franz Kafka

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
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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Stupidity Talk Understand
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet 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
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
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 am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word

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