欧宝娱乐

“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional 鈥渓ove forever鈥�- revelation has become a crumbling 鈥渓ove never, ever again鈥�- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ("Another empty room")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“American author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) wrote a collection of essays entitled 鈥淭he Crack-Up,鈥� which makes the following astute observation: 鈥渢he test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideals in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.鈥� For instance, he cites the ability to perceive that the situation is hopeless, and still be determined to make it otherwise. Sensitive people who came before me asked the same disconcerting questions that haunt me. Other troubled souls either drank themselves into oblivion or worked themselves to death in search of the elusive answer to this Fitzgeraldian question: Is it a sign of a lucid mind to place two contradictory ideas abreast and accept the merits of both propositions? Alternatively, is the deliberate act of embracing differing ideas with inapposite conclusions the warning sign of a troubled mind鈥檚 impending crackup?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls