

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
― Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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