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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“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.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Euripides, Medea