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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka

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
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
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
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
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
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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
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
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Animal Himself Light Music
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
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 do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself

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