MadBrain

“Cynicism is a great cure for over-study.
There is a great deal of cynicism in this book, in one place and another. It should be regarded as Angostura Bitters, to brighten the flavour of a discourse which were else too sweet. It prevents one from slopping over into sentimentality.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

“high on top of the world our noses sniffling like the noses of little boys playing late Saturday afternoon their final games in winter”
― Kerouac, Jack

“When the sun of culture is low, even dwarves will cast long shadows”
― Karl Kraus

“But the delight of Earth, the wonder of it; the essential feeling as of the necessity for magic; that juggling with the golden moon and silver sun (such are they) that is man's universal pastime: these are the things to seek in the Kalevala. All the world to wheel about in, the Great Bear to play with and Orion and the Seven Stars all dangling magically in the branches of a silver birch enchanted by Väinämöinen; the splendid sorcerous scandalous villains of old to tell of when you have bathed in the 'Sauna' after binding the kine at close of day into pastures of little Suomi in the Marshes.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Story of Kullervo