„It was the tension between these two poles — a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other — that kept me going.“

— Hunter S. Thompson

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„… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„Jack stood up as he said this, the bloodied knife in his hand. The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common-sense.“
— William Golding