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

Franz Kafka

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
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
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
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
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
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Angel Hell Myself Sing
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
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
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
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need 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
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave

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

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