You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

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Having a trial like that means losing a trial like that (Sufrir un proceso es casi haberlo perdido)

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If your method in correcting others leaves them worse than you met them, correct yourself. ― Zain Abdul Nassir

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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

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sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.- Franz Kafka

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Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.

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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. -Franz Kafka

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