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The Magic Mountain
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Daniel Keyes
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the
“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“The war was the height of human frailty and viciousness, yet I have seen immortal psychopath in the shaving mirror. There is some awful, inherent, self-destructive, race-destructive flaw in man. We pretend we live in a state of history but we don't. We don't even live in a state of nature like animals. We are outsiders - the prowling aliens against whom all the wolf fires have been lit.”
Brian Carter, A Black Fox Running

Voltaire
“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
Voltaire

Maggie Stiefvater
“If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.”
Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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