“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
David Deida (1958) American writer
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
“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, book The Zürau Aphorisms
Du kannst Dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist Dir freigestellt und entspricht Deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das Du vermeiden könntest.
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
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