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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Franz Kafka

I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
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
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
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
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
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

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