"“The Outsider wants to cease to be an Outsider. He wants to be ‘balanced'. He would like to achieve a vividness of sense-perception He would also like to understand the human soul and its working and, be ‘possessed’ by a Will topower, to more life. He would like to escape triviality forever. Above all, he would like to know how to express himself because that is the means by which he can get to know himself and hi unknown possibilities."
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