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“The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place-
Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“How short life would be if certain unpleasant moments didn't make it feel endless!”
― Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces

“You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes”
― Giacomo Casanova, History of My Life, Vols. I & II

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life