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“I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities