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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

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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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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

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His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

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Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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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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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 speakes he lies.

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

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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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