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“We broke our mother's heart and became ourselves.
We proceeded to breathe and therefore to leave,
drunken, astonished, each of us a god.”
― Patti Smith, Auguries of Innocence

“I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?”
― Stan Brakhage