Franz Kafka Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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'Part of the test,' said Sillain, 'is seeing how well you obey orders.''Then I fail,' said John Paul.
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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
