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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
― Heraclitus

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.”
― Don DeLillo, Running Dog

“I am in the mood to dissolve into the sky”
― Virginia Wolf

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Wolf