“No one, not even the starvation artist himself knew how great his achievement really was, and his heart grew heavy.” A Hunger Artist
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. A Room of One's Own
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice. These people abstain, to be sure: but the bitch Sensuality leers enviously out of all that they do. This restless beast follows them even into the heights of their virtue and into the depths of their cold spirit. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Oliver Twist
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