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Hermann Hesse (41)

Haruki Murakami (34)

Milan Kundera (25)

Alain de Botton (25)

Henry Miller (20)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (19)

Fernando Pessoa (17)

Blaise Pascal (15)

Virginia Woolf (14)

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Love (41)

Life (41)

Man (26)

World (25)

Self-knowledge (21)

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Hesse, Hermann

Germany
1877 // 1962

41 Texts 2 Poems 80 Quotes

Murakami, Haruki

Japan
1949

34 Texts 1 Poem 150 Quotes

Kundera, Milan

Czech Republic
1929

25 Texts 60 Quotes

Botton, Alain de

Switzerland
1969

25 Texts 80 Quotes

Miller, Henry

United States
1891 // 1980

20 Texts 90 Quotes

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Russia
1821 // 1881

19 Texts

Pessoa, Fernando

Portugal
1888 // 1935

17 Texts 36 Poems 31 Quotes

Pascal, Blaise

France
1623 // 1662

15 Texts 72 Quotes

Woolf, Virginia

England
1882 // 1941

14 Texts 102 Quotes

Beckett, Samuel

Ireland
1906 // 1989

13 Texts 50 Quotes

Aurelius, Marcus

Ancient Rome
121 // 180

13 Texts 45 Quotes

Thoreau, Henry

United States
1817 // 1862

13 Texts 143 Quotes

Amiel, Henri

Switzerland
1821 // 1881

12 Texts 74 Quotes

Emerson, Ralph

United States
1803 // 1882

12 Texts 100 Quotes

Roth, Philip

United States
1933

12 Texts 47 Quotes

Kafka, Franz

Austria
1883 // 1924

11 Texts 47 Quotes

Saramago, Jose

Portugal
1922 // 2010

10 Texts

Le Bon, Gustave

France
1841 // 1931

10 Texts

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Germany
1788 // 1860

10 Texts 68 Quotes

Chesterton, Gilbert

England
1874 // 1936

10 Texts 102 Quotes

Plath, Sylvia

United States
1932 // 1963

10 Texts 7 Poems 35 Quotes

Steinbeck, John

United States
1902 // 1968

10 Texts 60 Quotes

Lama, Dalai

Tibet
1935

10 Texts 69 Quotes

Lispector, Clarice

Brazil
1920 // 1977

9 Texts 43 Quotes

Nin, Anais

United States
1903 // 1977

9 Texts 60 Quotes

Leopardi, Giacomo

Italy
1798 // 1837

9 Texts

Hume, David

England
1711 // 1776

8 Texts

Osho,

India
1931 // 1990

8 Texts 30 Quotes

Zweig, Stefan

Austria
1881 // 1942

8 Texts 41 Quotes

Hemingway, Ernest

United States
1899 // 1961

7 Texts 106 Quotes

Auden, W. H.

England
1907 // 1973

7 Texts 6 Poems 13 Quotes

Pasternak, Boris

Russia
1890 // 1960

7 Texts 23 Quotes

Lao-Tze,

Ancient China
-570 // -490

7 Texts 58 Quotes

Goethe, Johann

Germany
1749 // 1832

7 Texts 186 Quotes

Laxness, Halld�r

Iceland
1902 // 1998

7 Texts 20 Quotes

Bacon, Francis

England
1561 // 1626

6 Texts 120 Quotes

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Germany
1844 // 1900

6 Texts 136 Quotes

McCarthy, Cormac

United States
1933

6 Texts 50 Quotes

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Russia
1918 // 2008

6 Texts 36 Quotes

Austen, Jane

England
1775 // 1817

5 Texts 80 Quotes

Joyce, James

Ireland
1882 // 1941

5 Texts 27 Quotes

Epictetus,

Ancient Greece
55 // 135

5 Texts 75 Quotes

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

France
1712 // 1778

5 Texts 57 Quotes

Franzen, Jonathan

United States
1959

5 Texts 37 Quotes

Dickens, Charles

England
1812 // 1870

4 Texts 20 Quotes

Vinci, Leonardo da

Italy
1452 // 1519

4 Texts 80 Quotes

Sartre, Jean-Paul

France
1905 // 1980

4 Texts 46 Quotes

Poe, Edgar Allan

United States
1809 // 1849

3 Texts 3 Poems 20 Quotes

Gandhi, Mohandas

India
1869 // 1948

3 Texts 133 Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays

Friedrich Nietzsche

On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human

Francis Bacon

On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays