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The Aeneid
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Morrissey
“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
Morrissey

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Allen Ginsberg
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac
“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Karl Marx
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

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