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“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus