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" I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. "
Franz Kafka
True
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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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" We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. "
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" Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. "
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" One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. "
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