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“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”

— Franz Kafka

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

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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.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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