“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
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“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
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“She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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