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“Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.”

Psychology of the Unconscious • Carl Gustav Jung

““Why, Milena, do you write about our common future which will never be, or is it that why you write about it? (…) Few things are certain, but one is that we’ll never live together, share an apartment, body to body, at a common table, never, not even in the same city. (…) Incidentally, Milena, you must agree when you examine yourself and me and take soundings of the “sea” between “Vienna” and “Prague” with its insurmountably high waves.” (Prague, September 1920)”

Letters To Milena • Franz Kafka

“All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...”

Ecce Homo • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

The Soul of Man Under Socialism • Oscar Wilde

“It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

Master Humphrey's Clock • Charles Dickens