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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The relationship to ones fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for ones striving. – Franz Kafka

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relationship
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. – Franz Kafka

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Happiness
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You cant just let nature run wild. – Walt Disney

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Nature

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. – William Hazlitt

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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself. – Leon Trotsky

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Nature

We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature. – Voltaire

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Nature

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Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and its not offensive, its funny? – Christopher Walken

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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sad

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. Im happy. – Liv Tyler

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Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. – Jean Paul

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