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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

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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Possible Quite Yourself
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
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
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
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
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
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; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
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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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
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
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream 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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing

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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