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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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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. – Franz Kafka

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Rejection
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Franz Kafka
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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. – Franz Kafka

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alone
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Mans true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. – Blaise Pascal

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Im not into organized religion. Im into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing were all just part of nature. – Neil Young

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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. – James Thurber

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I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You cant. Its against the law of nature. – Bryan Cranston

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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

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