Franz Kafka Quotes
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
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When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.
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People are always ready to pull you down.
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When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
