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“Ho! ho! miracles! I do not believe in miracles. I have seen too many.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

“I see before me the possibility of a perfectly heavenly enchantment and spectacle : -- it seems to me to scintillate with all the vibrations of a fine and delicate beauty, and within it there is an art so divine, so infernally divine, that one might search in vain for thousands of years for another such possibility; I see a spectacle so rich in significance and at the same time so wonderfully full of paradox that it should arouse all the gods on Olympus to immortal laughter -- Cesare Borgia as Pope! . . . Am I understood?”
― Nietzsche, The Antichrist

“Over the solitary hills he fared,
Thoughtless at first, but ere eve’s star appeared
His fantasy was lost, where reason fades,
In the calmed twilight of Platonic shades.”
― John Keats, Lamia

“The whole world knows that when England takes a pinch of snuff France sneezes.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman