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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka

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
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
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
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
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
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity

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