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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka

I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
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
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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success

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