The Department of Shades and Blinds: A Quotebag

As a young man, Hans Castorp had learned the exhilarating thrill of brushing up against powers whose full embrace would destroy you.

There had always been people who had willingly entered into illness and madness in order to win knowledge for mankind – and knowledge, having been wrestled from madness became health and, once obtained by heroic sacrifice, its possession and use were no longer conditioned by illness and madness.

– Thomas Mann

The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.

– Salvador Dali

To them he dedicated some of his best love poems, Platonically exalting their beauty, which to him was living proof of the immanence of the divine on earth.

– Luciano Rebay

Sensations are the great things after all!

– Edgar Allan Poe

I read that the puppet world is in a mess

But I don’t feel distress

Good-bye puppet world!

– Iggy Pop