You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of ... -Franz Kafka

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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them....
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself....
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler....
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me....
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being....
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza....
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old....
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old....
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms....
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 ve...

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....