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Friedrich Nietzsche
“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Joseph Conrad
“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Rainer Maria Rilke
“If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Seneca
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

W.H. Auden
“Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”
W. H. Auden

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