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Some ideas challenge us, others make us angry, others inspire us, and still others remind of us of the truth.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
~~Shakespeare, King Lear

Ay, in the very temple of delight veil’d melancholy has her sovereign shrine
~~ Keats

I'm not the first, others better than I are tormented.
~~Dostoyevsky

Now, I am an affectionate man but I have much trouble showing it.
~~Douglas Coupland