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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

Franz Kafka

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Heart Myself Quiet Yourself
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
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 cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing

Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

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