Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity."
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Incapacity
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves"
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as."
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"Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition."
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