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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cannot #cheat #companionship #dissipate #force

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

#ecstasy #even #feet #freely #itself

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#back #certain #certain point #longer #must

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#fire #further #go #must #obstacle

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#free #often #safer #than

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#emotion #etc #experience #itself #life

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#echoing #heaven #only

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#aware #become #changes #clarity #constantly

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#been #change #coming #congo #however

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region. ↗