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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

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
FRANZ KAFKA

Escape Forget Myself
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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
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
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
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

Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
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
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Dream Each Other Hide Myself See
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
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
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Breathe Myself Quiet
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Stupidity Talk Understand
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace 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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