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“Finally I realized that I was a demi-god and that I was beyond all the low, petty desires of mankind. I felt the eternal flux within me. What is eternity? Eternity for me was playing hide-and-seek with that whore on the banks of the Suren river; it was a momentary closing of my eyes when I hid my head in her lap.”
The Blind Owl • Sadegh Hedayat“Newspapers ... chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever.”
The Critic as Artist • Oscar Wilde““And the man who seeks salvation in change of place like a migrating bird would find nothing anywhere, for all the world is alike to him.””
The Duel • Anton Chekhov“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”
Autumn Leaves • Andre Gide“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson • Mark Twain