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“In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.”

Seagull • Anton Chekhov

“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?”

Memories, Dreams, Reflections • Carl Gustav Jung

“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!”

The Inspector General • Nikolai Gogol

“When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn’t inside us can’t excite us.””

Demian • Hermann Hesse

“Sleep is in contact with the Possible, which we also call the improbable. The world of the night is a world. Night, as night, is a universe.... The dark things of the unknown world become neighbors of man, whether by true communication or by a visionary enlargement of the distances of the abyss ... and the sleeper, not quite seeing, not quite unconscious, glimpses the strange anomalities, weird vegetation, terrible or radiant pallors, ghosts, masks, figures, hydras, confusions, moonless moonlights, obscure unmakings of miracle, growths and vanishings within a murky depth, shapes floating in shadow, the whole mystery which we call Dreaming, and which is nothing other than the approach of an invisible reality. The dream is the aquarium of Night.”

Travailleurs de la Mer • VICTOR HUGO