Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

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The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

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I wish I could be Peter Falk. - Ryan Gosling

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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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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.

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Be the change that you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

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I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.

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