Mark Hager

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“After she diluted MDMA into the creature’s tank, a tightly wound octopus visibly loosened up and began to perform what might be described as water ballet. It gracefully floated across the tank, ran its arms through streams of air bubbles and even undertook aquatic somersaults. Basically, it looked “like he was really just having a good time,”3 Dölen said.”
― Rachel Love Nuwer, I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World