Franz Kafka Quotes

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

Franz Kafka

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• Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.

  

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• I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

  

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• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  

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• I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

  

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• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  

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• I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

  

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• When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

  

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• When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.

  

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• Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

  

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• A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

  

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• You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

  

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• ⋅Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to not fear the truth, even when it is painful, to not hide it or cover it up. However, this does not mean enduring strategies to discredit (the Church) in general...It is appropriate, then, that we all return to calling things by their names at all times, to identify evil in all of its gravity and in the multiplicity of its manifestations.

  

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• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  

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• I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

  

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• Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • I Think
  • Bones
  • Expiate