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“Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.”
― Richard Ellmann

“Wilde had to live his life twice over, first in slow motion, then at top speed. During the first period he was a scapegrace, during the second a scapegoat. For the three and a half years he lived after his release from prison, he saw pass before him, mostly in dumb show, a multitude of people he had known earlier, who evaded him.”
― Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde

“My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.”
― Glenn Gould

“It's a pity both sides can't lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)”
― Henry Kissinger

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can get lost in the sauce.”
― Gucci Mane

“A slave ship of the skies.”
― Gucci Mane, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane