"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
-Franz Kafka
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"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.“
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"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
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"The relationship to one's 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 one's striving."
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"So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being."
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"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler."
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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."
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