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Love is a drama of contradictions.

Franz Kafka

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
FRANZ KAFKA

Feeling Forever Hands Myself Thinking
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
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
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
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
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
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
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.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
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
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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

Love is a drama of contradictions.

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