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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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

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

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The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

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I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

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Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

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My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

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Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

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Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

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What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

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