Beyond Good And Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

"What a person IS begins to betray itself when his talent decreases,—when he ceases to show what he CAN do. Talent is also an adornment; an adornment is also a concealment."

The Myth of Sysiphus, Albert Camus

"My life may find a meaning in it, but that is trifling. It ceases to be that exercise in detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a man’s life."

Skagboys, Irvine Welsh

"She’d grown to believe that suffering only led to more suffering. There was just comfort, it was the only thing we could offer each other."

“I was cured, all right!”

Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

"To most people, mescalin is almost completely innocuous. Unlike alcohol, it does not drive the taker into the kind of uninhibited action which results in brawls, crimes of violence and traffic accidents. A man under the influence of mescalin quietly minds his own business. Moreover, the business he minds is an experience of the most enlightening kind, which does not have to be paid for (and this is surely important) by a compensatory hangover."

The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley