It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.
For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.
Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.
The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.
What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.
Religions get lost as people do.
Writing [is] a form of prayer.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.
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.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
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