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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

Franz Kafka

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
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
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
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
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
It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Philosophy Stupidity
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Believe Deep Success
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Darkness Deep Different Myself Talk Thinking Writing
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
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
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Book One Liner Sea

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