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

Franz Kafka

The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
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
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
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
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Acceptance Lie Necessary Need Rule World Yourself
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
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
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
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution

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