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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka

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
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True
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
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love 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 cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People

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