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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Franz Kafka

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
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom 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
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 can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
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
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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