Paths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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The limited circle is pure.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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