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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Franz Kafka

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
All language is but a poor translation.
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Language One Liner Poor
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
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
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing

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