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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

Franz Kafka

Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Guilty Man Wake Up
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Escape Forget Myself
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
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
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Ourselves People Present
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Leaving Politics Revolution
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
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
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love Myself Place
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
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
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Acceptance Lying Necessary Principle True

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