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All language is but a poor translation.


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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.



Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.



Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.



Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.



I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.



It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.



I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.



I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am free and that is why I am lost.



I am a cage, in search of a bird.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.



People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.





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When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

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When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music.

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Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

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One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.

One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.



Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.



I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.



There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

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This page presents the quote "All language is but a poor translation.". Author of this quote is Franz Kafka. This quote is about novelists, poor, ironic, language,.