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“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Indeed I myself who was Cain and bore that sign had imagined that the sign was nothing to be ashamed of but a distinction rather and that because of my wickedness and 'misfortune I stood higher than my father, higher than the pious and righteous.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian