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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

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

— Franz Kafka

#free #often #safer #than

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#footsteps #hollow #made #only #own

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#history #instant #mankind #strides #taken

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

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#america #any #anything #between #called

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

I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords. ↗

— Doug Solter

#funny #humor #samurai #swords #truth-of-life

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#due #extraordinary #general #honor #integrity