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

Franz Kafka

Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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People Unity Word
For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Light Myself Yourself
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
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
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
You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Silence Yourself
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
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
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
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
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

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