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“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Would to heaven that this accursed engine had never been invented. I had not then received those wounds which I now languish under, neither had so many valiant men been slain for the most part by pitiful fellows, and the greatest cowards; poltroons that had not dared to look those men in the face at hand, which at distance they lay dead with their confounded bullets.”
― Blaise de Monluc, Blaise de Monluc

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger