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Franz Kafka
Austria
3 Jul 1883 // 3 Jun 1924
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On Love:
But when I want to draw close to someone, and fully commit myself, then my misery is assured. Then I am nothing, and what can I do with nothingness?
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On Love:
Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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On Love:
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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