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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.

Franz Kafka

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
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
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
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Avoid Freedom Hold Nature Suffering World Yourself
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself True
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
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
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

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.

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