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“Stop, Basil! I won't hear it!" cried Dorian, leaping to his feet. "You must not tell me about things. What is done is done. What is past is past." "You call yesterday the past?" "What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I woke up one morning to find that the entire city had been covered in a three-foot layer of man-eating jam.”
― Yahtzee Croshaw, Jam

“Charles Bascomb was a man who loved figures—the genuine, Arabic kind, that is.”
― Raymond F. Jones, The Non-Statistical Man

“That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and work.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs