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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.

Franz Kafka

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
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
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
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
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
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
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
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
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

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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