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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes.
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2026-04-05

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Every human is a brilliant, complex, individual soul. And we must never forget this.
One must find the source within one's own self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking — a detour, an error.
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
Humor is always gallows humor.