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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“Become so very free that your whole existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

“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