No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Discourses
I do not love men: I love what devours them. Prometheus Misbound
“If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.” Seagull
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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