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“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I swear if you existed I'd divorce you.”
― Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

“The proper study of mankind is man," you know.'
'You must study him, then,”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“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