Oscar

“Death is a mere human dream—a comforting fancy; it has no real existence-there is nothing in the Universe but life! O hideous misery!-I cannot die!”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan; Or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire; a Romance Volume 2

“I love myself and loathe myself more than other men. One of these excesses attracts women, but which?”
― John Updike, A Month of Sundays

“a boy with an unspeakable past was a man with an unendurable future. He was good to look at, good to dance with, probably good to sleep with: but he was no longer good for love.”
― James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

“It will soon be all over—a few more uneasy breathings-and I shall be at rest. I am glad—for the world and I were never good friends; I am sure that if we could know, before we were born, what life really is, we should never take the trouble to live!”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan; Or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire; a Romance Volume 2