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Franz Kafka

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
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
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
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
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
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
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
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
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 the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Dream Myself Night Remember Yourself
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up

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

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