"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
-Franz Kafka
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"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.“
-Franz Kafka
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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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"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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"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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