"Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?"

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Source : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.483, Vintage

Hermann Broch

#Mad Quotes #Insane Quotes #Gone Quotes

“It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.”

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“An attitude will give you heft.”
“But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.”

Source : Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.
“... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies is the doctrine of natural rights. It was to secure these rights that the modern state was invented in the first place, and it is impossible, especially for Americans, not to be seduced by the doctrine. But it is nonetheless a philosophical superstition.”
“White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.”

Source : Sylvia Wolf, Dieter Appelt, Wieland Schmied (1994). “Dieter Appelt”, Art Institute of Chicago
“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
“Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick,innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving.”
“If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.”

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