Franz Kafka Quotes, Photography Quotes, Eye Quotes

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 of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

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Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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I never wish to be easily defined.

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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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I carry the bars within me.

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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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No one can crave what truly harms him.

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

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If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

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The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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