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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Franz Kafka

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
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
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
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
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
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
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
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person

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