Alexander Bent

“Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols