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• I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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  Depression, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• Only the moment counts. It determines life.

  Franz Kafka

  Moments, Determine

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• The meaning of life is that it stops.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Death, Life And Death

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Dust, Essence, Individuality

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• No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

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  Matter, Staring, Stills

  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text”, p.184, Schocken

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• They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

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  Ignorance, Bliss, Ignorance Is Bliss

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• I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

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  Small Life

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• I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

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  Silent, Discontent, Retiring

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• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Inspirational Birthday

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• The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

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  Men, Arms, He Man

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• Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

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  Love Is, Knives, Plunge

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• Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

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  Self, Doubt, Life Is

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.413, Schocken

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• Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

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  Cynical, Revolution, Slime

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• I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

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• The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

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  Fighting, Swimming, Order

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• I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

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  Needed

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• There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

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  Infinite, Amount, Universe

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• From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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  Freedom, Healing, Goal

  Franz Kafka (1933). “The great wall of China: and other pieces”

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• There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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  Lying, Two, Deceit

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

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  Missing

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• We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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  Suicide, Book, Grieving

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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  Funny, Fighting, Literature

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• I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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  Writing, Voice, Unrest

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• Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

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  Lying, Needs, Failing

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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