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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.

Franz Kafka

Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
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
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
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
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound

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