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“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream's content.”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
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