“There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
frightened people
and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation
that life had prepared for him.”
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a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
frightened people
and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation
that life had prepared for him.”
―
“LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self.
MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
― The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
― The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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