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“In his conversations with Anna Sergeyevna he expressed more strongly than ever his calm indifference to any kind of "romanticism"; but when he was alone he indignantly recognized romanticism in himself. ”
Fathers and Sons • Ivan Turgenev“H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Mark Twain“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche“He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity.”
Men and Memories • Oscar Wilde