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• 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.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Thinking, Darkness

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Ottla and the Family”, Schocken

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• I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

  Franz Kafka

  I Can

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.327, Schocken

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• You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

  Franz Kafka

  Decision, Lasts

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• What am I doing here in this endless winter?

  Franz Kafka

  Winter, Endless

  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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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.".

  Franz Kafka

  Matter, Staring, Stills

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

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• I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

  Franz Kafka

  Needed

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

  Franz Kafka

  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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• I never wish to be easily defined.

  Franz Kafka

  Wish, Defined

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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.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Two, Deceit

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

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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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• I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

  Franz Kafka

  Chains

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

  Franz Kafka

  Ignorance, Bliss, Ignorance Is Bliss

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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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• A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

  Franz Kafka

  Wish To Die, Understanding, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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

  Franz Kafka

  Missing

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• If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

  Franz Kafka

  Throwing, Abyss, Involved

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

  Franz Kafka

  Love Is, Knives, Plunge

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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.

  Franz Kafka

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Inspirational Birthday

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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.

  Franz Kafka

  Fighting, Swimming, Order

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• Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

  Franz Kafka

  Night, Fire, Details

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Letters to Milena”

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

  Franz Kafka

  Freedom, Healing, Goal

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

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• We need the books that affect us like a disaster

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Needs, Disaster

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

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

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

  Franz Kafka

  Haunting, Irresistible

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

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Voice, Unrest

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