Arikos

“I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
― Nikola Tesla

“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
― Voltaire