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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka

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
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
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
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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
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
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
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
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself

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