For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKAHe was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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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.
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The limited circle is pure.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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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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