I Swear To You That To Think Too Much Is A Disease, A Real, Actual Disease. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes

Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Véra

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo (London, beginning of January 1874)

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao Tzu 

“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”

— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

—

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”

-Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

— Arthur Rimbaud (b. 20 October 1854)

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