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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#book #frozen #sea #serve #should

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

— Franz Kafka

#great #imposing #rather #responsibility #too

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

— Franz Kafka

#free #often #safer #than

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#ecstasy #even #feet #house #itself

Evil is whatever distracts. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#evil #whatever

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#i #kiss #may #might #miserable

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#rather #right #start #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

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#even #fact #over #you

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#good #sense