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“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
― Edith Wharton

“A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.”
― Jacques Derrida, Dissemination

“Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor

“Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth