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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

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
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
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
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
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
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Fashion Inspirational Logic Soul Yourself
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
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 thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Deep I Miss You Myself
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity 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
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
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
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance

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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