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

Franz Kafka

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
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
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Myself Need Self Love
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
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
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin

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

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