Franz Kafka Inspirational Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

• Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  "Readers recommend: songs about books" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2015.

• I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and 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.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

• Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Fashion, Truth

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

• Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Real, Lasting

• By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Crush

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

• A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Light, Belief

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

• No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Men, Done

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