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

Franz Kafka

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 am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
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
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
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
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
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Dream Myself Night Remember Yourself
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
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
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
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
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

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

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