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Quotation by Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka (130)Additional Sources
Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings New York, Schocken Books (1954)Diaries: 1910-1913 New York, Schocken Books (1948)Diaries: 1910-1913, ed. Max Brod New York, Schocken Books (1948)Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors New York, Schocken Books (1977)quoted in Margarete Buber-Neumann, Milena (1989)Related Subjects
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 ecstacy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Czech novelist, short story writer. written Oct. 1917-Feb. 1918. The Collected Aphorisms, vol. 1, no. 109, Shorter Works, ed. and trans. by Malcolm Pasley (1973).
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