Luminara

“If you could really win people's hearts over with the power of money, authority or reasoning, then moneylenders, policemen and college professors would be more popular than anybody else. People operate on their likes and dislikes, not on logic.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“Yesterday I advised you not to write me every day, I still hold the same opinion today and it would be very good for both of us, and so I repeat my advice today even more emphatically - only please, Milena, don't listen to me, and write me every day anyway”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I was reading my destiny inside your eyes without knowing it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Irrationality. I found the thought faintly pleasurable. Or rather, I feel at ease with it. What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its water until presently, I drowned.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human