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“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
― James Baldwin, James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“[...]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

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley