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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.


Franz Grillparzer

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FRANZ LISZT A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring somethin...
FRANZ KAFKA The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old p...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing ...
FRANZ MARC The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classi...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I r...
DENNIS FRANZ I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will...
DENNIS FRANZ Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
FRANZ KAFKA Books are a narcotic
FRANZ KAFKA In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
FRANZ KAFKA You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not hope for victory
FRANZ KAFKA The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
FRANZ KAFKA Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
FRANZ KAFKA All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog
FRANZ KAFKA We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no...
FRANZ KAFKA Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
FRANZ LISZT Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the i...
FRANZ BOAS Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in mo...
FRANZ LISZT If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA 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 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