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Quote by Franz Kafka
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of ones

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

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The relationship to ones fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for ones striving. – Franz Kafka

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relationship
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. – Franz Kafka

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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

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. – Theodore Dreiser

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Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. – Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927

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A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. – Johannes Tauler

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I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it. – Robert Foster Bennett

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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You dont have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You dont have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. – Steve Jobs

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