“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
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“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
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“And he couldn’t do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.”
― Sabbath's Theater
― Sabbath's Theater
“But I need to feel beautiful and holy things around me, always: music, mystery cults, symbols, myths. I need it, and I refuse to give it up... That’s my fatal flaw.”
― Demian
― Demian
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