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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

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
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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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
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
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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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Dream Myself Night Remember 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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