“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.” The Cherry Orchard

The things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. David Copperfield

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult? Demian

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone. the Revolt of the Masses