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It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Franz Kafka
Home, Waiting, World
Franz Kafka (2011). “The Zurau Aphorisms”, p.108, Random House

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Franz Kafka
Home, Writing, Long

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Franz Kafka
Home, Doors, Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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