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

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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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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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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

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The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

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Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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

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This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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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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There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

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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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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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