"In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality."

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Franz Kafka

#Dust Quotes #Essence Quotes #Individuality Quotes

“If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.”
“Here's a philosophical rule of thumb: always start with the negative definitions. Negative definitions are always easier to understand. So, here's a negative definition. We must not conceive difference in terms of the differences we find between things that already exist. Difference is not empirical differences.”
“My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.”
“A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.”
“If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.”

Source : Said to the conductor Fritz Hart. Quoted in John Thompson On Lips of LivingMen (1962).
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....”
“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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