“If You Want To Awaken All Of Humanity, Then Awaken All Of Yourself. If You Want To Eliminate The Suffering

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

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Anna Akhmatova, from "Don't Frighten Me" in Selected Poems

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“…It’s as if my heart is surrounded by a hundred petals.”

“My tenderest kisses, beloved little being — I dreamt about you.”

— Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), in a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980),  Friday [7 July 1939], Amiens, in “Letters To Sartre”, translated by Quintin Hoare

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Louise Glück, From Descending Figure; “The Garden”

September 22. Nothing.

Franz Kafka - Diaries 1914-1923 (Allegedly)