No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it … - Franz Kafka

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My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

Franz Kafka

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. " "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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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 a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. . . someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

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One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.

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