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  • #1
    Franz Kafka
    “One does not have to believe everything is true, one only has to believe it is necessary.”
    Franz Kafka, The Trial

  • #2
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #3
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #4
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Hermann Hesse
    “We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #7
    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #8
    “I love you because you didn't fall in love with me.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #13
    Osamu Dazai
    “I yearned for everything long gone.”
    Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

  • #14
    Osamu Dazai
    “It made me miserable that I was rapidly becoming an adult and that I was unable to do anything about it.”
    Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

  • #15
    Osamu Dazai
    “A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.”
    Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have sympathy with thought.”
    Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
    Oscar Wilde



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