Franz Kafka Quotes
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Quotes to Explore
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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I'll say anything to live.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
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Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
