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 KAFKAThe truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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The limited circle is pure.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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