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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

#ecstasy #even #feet #freely #itself

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#among #anyone #cannot #come #despair

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#avoid #back #could #free #hold

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

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#element #indeed #link #only #positive

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#before #come #could #elbow #end

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#difficult #had #highest #highest level #level

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different? ↗

— Donald Kagan

#always #anybody #ask #because #different

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#different #direction #experience #felt #history

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#cool thing #deal #difference #different #different kind