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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
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World

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