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

Franz Kafka

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
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 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
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKA

Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
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
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True

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