- Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. Franz Kafka »
- Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka »
- If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. Franz Kafka »
- In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka »
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise because of impatience we cannot return. Franz Kafka »
- There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka »
- 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 Kafka »
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