" Its occured to many people that life is merely a dream - and I'm drawn to that feeling. When I see the narrow boundaries of action and thought within which we are confined; when I see how so much human effort is directed merely at satisfying our basic needs - and has no other ambition or aim; serving only to prolong one's poor life; when I see that the only comfort intellectual knowledge can bring us is a lesson in resignation ( the most sophisticated teaching of literary philosophy is only this : put up with things) while the best art can do is to decorate the walls of the prison house in which we live - all these thoughts leave me speechless, utterly dumb"
- Werther-