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

Franz Kafka

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Eyes Mindset Myself Ourselves Photograph Story
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
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
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
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
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
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself

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

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