oh, you reasonable people! i cried, smiling. passion! drunkenness! madness! you stand there so calmly, so uninvolved, you moral people! you scold the drinker, loathe the weak-minded, pass by like the priest and thank God like the pharisees that He has not made you as one of these. i have been drunk more than once, my passions were never far from madness, and i don't regret either: for despite my limitations i have learned to understand how all exceptional people who created something great, something that seemed impossible, have from time immemorial been vilified as drunks and madmen.
-johann wolfgang von goethe the sorrows of young werther
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