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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Myself Reading Time
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Angel Hell Myself Sing
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Let Go Myself Problem
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Animal Himself Light Music
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself

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