Dylan Thomas at his best.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Slint, Spiderland

"There is no contradiction between free will and knowing in advance precisely what one will do. If one knows oneself completely then this is the situation. One does not deliberately do the opposite of what one wants." ~ Kurt Gödel

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ Hassan-i Sabbah

Violent Femmes, Never Tell

"I wish they sent me to Mars instead." ~ Cat Marnell

Worth watching.

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Our kind. Us people. All of us that started the game with a crooked cue, that wanted so much and got so little, that mean so good and did so bad. All us folks." ~ The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson

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"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." ~ Gore Vidal

"What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have obstinately, wilfully, struck out another difficult, absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness."

"What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice."

"I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."

"Reactionary as it is, corporal punishment is better than nothing."

Quotes from Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I am a sick man..." ~ Opening sentence of Notes From The Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"My little comedy is played out. The curtain is falling. Sinking into nothing, I cease to be superfluous..." ~ April 1, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turgenev

“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products” ~ Marcel Duchamp

"Yes, it is good, good to be rid, at last, of the wearing sense of life, of the persistent, restless consciousness of existence." ~ March 20, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turgenev