Don’t bend, don’t water it down, don’t try to make it logical, don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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""May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.""

- Franz Kafka

Love

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."

- Franz Kafka

Self-awareness

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."

- Franz Kafka

Self-awareness

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

- Franz Kafka

Happiness

"“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”"

- Franz Kafka

Happiness

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"Reject common sense to make the impossible possible."

- Simon

Boldness

"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! Those are the facts of this world! And you will all surrender to them, you pigs in human clothing!"

- Satsuki Kiryuuin

Boldness

"There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do."

- Amy Poehler

Boldness

"I believe great people do things before they are ready."

- Amy Poehler

Boldness

"There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn about and say ‘Watch me’."

- Bryce Harper

Boldness