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

Franz Kafka

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
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
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 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
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
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
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

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