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“To accept the world as boring or accept oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.”
― Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle
― Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
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“Essentially, people live in one of two ways. Either they live in awareness of their own worthlessness, or they live in their awareness of the worthlessness of the world. Two ways. Either you allow your value to be absorbed by the world, or you chisel away at the world's value and make it your own. Which should take precedence, the value of the world your own value?”
― Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle
― Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
― The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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