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 KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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