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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

Franz Kafka

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
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
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 usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
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
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
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
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
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
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
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

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