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“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“A man lies in the filth of his deathbed and there comes the angel of death, the most beatific of all angels, and looks at him. Can this man so much as dare to die?”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Here, too, I found neither home nor company, nothing but a seat from which to view a stage where strange people played strange parts.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf