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Things Quotes by Franz Kafka
- Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play…
- 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…
- I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
- Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
- It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
- The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right,…
- The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday…
- And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that…
- We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
- There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such…
- You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting…
- They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so…
- There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
- I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things
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- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle