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🇩🇪Hermann Hesse

Literature

existentialism

1861–1948

"Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."

🇺🇸Adam Silvera

Literature

b. 1990

"I don’t ever see any character as 100 percent good or 100 percent evil…"

🇬🇧Brian Aldiss

Literature

1925–2017

"I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth."

🇺🇸Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Literature

Beat Generation

1919–2021

"Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations."

John Ogilby

Business

1600–1676

"True Valour best is without Witness shown."

🇩🇪Gustav Landauer

Philosophy

Materialism

1870–1919

"Now it can become clear to man that freedom and peace of the nations can only come when as Jesus and his followers, and in our time above all Tolstoi advised, they choose to fully abstain from any violence."

🇺🇸Nancy Peters

Literature

b. 1936

"In the Wind, published by Surrealist Editions and Black Swan Press, accessed online August 5, 2007"

🇬🇧Sarah Bakewell

Literature

b. 1963

"The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty called Montaigne a writer who put “a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence."

"Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first, or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both."

"Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?"

🇰🇷Moon Jae-in

Politics

b. 1953

"Opportunities will be equal. The procedures will be fair. The result will be just."