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I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.


Dennis Franz

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FRANZ KAFKA The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...
FRANZ KAFKA Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful m...
FRANZ MARC Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to ...
FRANZ KAFKA What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptiv...
FRANZ WRIGHT One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea...
FRANZ KAFKA I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation m...
FRANZ WRIGHT Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long
FRANZ KAFKA Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
FRANZ LISZT When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ...
FRANZ WRIGHT Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides ...
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