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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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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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Evil is whatever distracts.

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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

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

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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The truth is always an abyss.

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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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Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

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The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

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Writer speaks a stench.

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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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