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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.

Franz Kafka

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.
FRANZ KAFKA

Myself Suffering Yourself
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
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
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
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKA

Art Patience Sin
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
FRANZ KAFKA

Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
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
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
FRANZ KAFKA

Escape Forget Myself
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place

You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.

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