Quote by Franz Kafka
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. – Franz Kafka

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. – Franz Kafka

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I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. – Steve Lacy

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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. – Ansel Adams

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I wish to be
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I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. – Thomas Aquinas

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