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“I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”
― Egon Schiele

“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.”
― Antonin Artaud

“it is a more or less complex system of myths, dogmas, rites and ceremonies.”
― Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

“How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!—”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On Human Nature