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

Franz Kafka

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
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
I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Freedom Lost Myself One Liner Philosophy
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
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
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
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
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Easy Mindset Myself People Person
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution

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