Friedrich August Von

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“Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real “horror vacui.””
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)

“What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)