"We live in an insane asylum. A barbaric, merciless, cesspool. And in this purgatory filled with disease and ugliness and violence and hatred and injustice and greed and lies and pain and frustration and confusion, there are brief, fleeting moments of peace and love and truth and beauty. They are rare. They are years and miles apart. But they are so meaningful that they make life worth living. Those moments give you strength to face the insanity with your balance intact and your eyes focused and you endure and tolerate and survive. And if you're lucky, real lucky, you can tap that strength and hold on to it long enough to, in your own small way, try to make it all a little bit better. Just a little bit more civil and just. To serve. And you don't do it for anybody else because no one is going to thank you or reward you or even notice. Don't kid yourself. You do it for you. For your own soul. Because in this world that's all the salvation you're ever gonna get."
Little Steven, from his liner notes to the Born Again Savage album from 1999.
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