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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.

Franz Kafka

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
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
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
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 free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
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
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
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
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy

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