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“Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been...”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat