“No one, not even the starvation artist himself knew how great his achievement really was, and his heart grew heavy.” A Hunger Artist
“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.” Leo Africanus
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive. The World As Will and Representation
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