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“In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce“Variant: That which is really beautiful has no need of anything. ”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius““Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit / Of This and That endeavour and dispute / Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape / Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!”
The Inspector General • Nikolai Gogol“Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you it's not true and that it's blushing just as I am now, all over.”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski