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• There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Spring, New Beginnings

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• 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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  Life, Metamorphosis, Happenings

  "The Metamorphosis". Book by Franz Kafka, 1915.

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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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• 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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• I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

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  World

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• I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

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  Love, Acceptance, Light

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• He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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  Fear, Dying

  Franz Kafka (2013). “The Metamorphosis”, p.135, Modern Library

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  There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

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  Humans, Human Relations, Convinced

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  I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

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  Tired, Thinking, Hands

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Letters to Milena”

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• Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

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  Inspirational, Real, Lasting

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• Please — consider me a dream.

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  Dream, Please

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• Books are a narcotic.

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  Book, Health, Narcotics

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• If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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  Reading, Ice, Sea

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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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• I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

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  Wells

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.169, Schocken

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• I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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  Desire, Ends, Resisting

  "I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings".

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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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• I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.

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  Communication, Trying, May

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• Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

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  Mean, Doctors, Names

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• Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

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  Photograph, Deceptive

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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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• Only the moment counts. It determines life.

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  Moments, Determine

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• All language is but a poor translation.

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  Ironic, Novelists, Language

  "Franz Kafka And James Baldwin: Blackstar 10/1/16" by Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. January 16, 2016.

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• Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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  Hate, Obsession, Intense

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

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• I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.

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  Running, Memories, Wall

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