„The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.“

— H.L. Mencken

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„True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life“
— James Baldwin
„With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„There is only one true aristocracy… and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!“
— Tennessee Williams