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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

Franz Kafka

They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Eyes Mindset Myself Ourselves Photograph Story
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
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
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
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
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKA

Inspirational Philosophy
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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