forgive me, sir; i know not the magic words--is it the fever first and then the fire?

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"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation of consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again."
--Anne Frank

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
--Carl Jung

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing. There are two opposing poles of wanting nothing: When one is so full and rich and has so many inner worlds that the outer world is not necessary for joy, because joy emanates from the inner core of one's being. When one is dead and rotten inside and there is nothing in the world: not all the woman, food, sun or mind-magic of others can reach the wormy core of one's gutted soul planet."
--Sylvia Plath

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science."
--Edwin P. Hubble

"Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed, the better I felt."
--Charles Bukowski

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
--Albert Camus