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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Franz Kafka

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
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
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Happiness Old Youth
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
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
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
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
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
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
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
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

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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