Franz Kafka Quotes
'Hey, there’s something falling down in there,' said the chief clerk. Gregor tried to suppose to himself that what had happened to him might some day also happen to the chief clerk. There was no denying that anything was possible.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.
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For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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All the gang of those who rule usHope our quarrels never stopHelping them to split and fool usSo they can remain on top.
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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.
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I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.
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'Hey, there’s something falling down in there,' said the chief clerk. Gregor tried to suppose to himself that what had happened to him might some day also happen to the chief clerk. There was no denying that anything was possible.
