…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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- To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love. – Edward Albee