John Johnson

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil