Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal. Nicholas Nickleby
“I feel as if I had been in the world a thousand years, and I trail my life behind me like an endless scarf.” Seagull
“It was a familiar feeling. This feeling of being incomplete in just about every sense. An unfinished jigsaw of a human.” Midnight Library
If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way. Either/Or
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