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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
― Samuel Butler

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood