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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Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

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What Peter Jackson proved with 'Lord Of The Rings' movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things around, but as long as it was in the spirit of the storytelling, and because he made The Shire so real, the fans forgave him for the changes. - Cheo Hodari Coker

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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. — Ashley Montagu

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He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.

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We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

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When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

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Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.- Avril Lavigne

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We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.

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Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life! — Andy Rooney

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