Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. — Sally Koch

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I’ve slowly come to realize dreams are nothing more than broken thoughts we take to the grave with us. ― Brandy Slaven

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When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. —Carol Burnett

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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. ― Henry Rollins

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People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. — Carrie Ann Moss

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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

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You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need. ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. ― C.S. Lewis

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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future. ― Eleanor Brown

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