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“To be excessively conscious is a disease, a real-full blown disease.”
― Dostoyevsky

“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man’s reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me and…to kill themselves.”
― Leonid Andreyev

“And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“The incomplete, if it is perpetually straining to realise itself, is quite as enticing as the most perfect success.”
― M. Bloch

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And life told me this secret: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must overcome itself again and again.”
― Nietzsche Friedrich W.

“The acts of madmen exceed the previsions of the sane.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision.”
― Jacques Derrida