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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 keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#anyone #beauty #grows #keeps #never

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

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#anyone #beauty #because #grows #happy

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#i do #my time #read #spend #things

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

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

— Franz Kafka

#book #frozen #sea #serve #should

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

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#could #deceives #element #heavenly #love

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#being #better #knowing #maxim #may