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“Problems are the poetry of chess. They demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, harmony, conciseness, complexity, and splendid insincerity.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Poems and Problems

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I like books where all the mysteries and the anguish pass through a precise and cold mind, without shadows, like the mind of a chessplayer.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler