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  • #1
    Samuel Beckett
    “I can't go on, I'll go on.”
    Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #3
    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #5
    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #7
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #8
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #9
    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #10
    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #12
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #14
    Haruki Murakami
    “But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
    Haruki Murakami

  • #15
    Ferdinand von Schirach
    “Ich dachte, ein neues Leben wäre leichter, aber es wurde nie leichter. Es ist ganz gleich, ob wir Apotheker oder Tischler oder Schriftsteller sind. Die Regeln sind immer ein wenig anders, aber die Fremdheit bleibt und die Einsamkeit und alles andere auch.”
    Ferdinand von Schirach, Strafe

  • #16
    Ferdinand von Schirach
    “Ich glaube das nicht: Menschen verzweifeln nicht wegen Büchern. Es ist umgekehrt. Wir suchen die Bücher, die für uns geschrieben sind.”
    Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten

  • #17
    Hermann Hesse
    “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #18
    Hermann Hesse
    “Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
    Herman Hesse

  • #19
    Hermann Hesse
    “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #20
    Hermann Hesse
    “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #21
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #22
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #23
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
    Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

  • #24
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
    Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning



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