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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.

Franz Kafka

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
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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
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
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Inspirational Philosophy
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Himself Slave
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Destination Kiss Writing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Literature Myself Willing
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy

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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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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