“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
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“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
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“It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right. ”
― Some Hope: A Trilogy
― Some Hope: A Trilogy
“Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?”
― The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
― The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
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