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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
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
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Myself Search
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea
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
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
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
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
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
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World

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