April 28th, 2013
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via frenchtwist)
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April 15th, 2013
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. — Michel de Montaigne, Of the inconsistency of our actions (via frenchtwist)
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December 9th, 2012
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. —

Rudyard Kipling

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August 17th, 2012
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay VIII: Nominalist and Realist (via frenchtwist)
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July 6th, 2012
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. — Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise, translation by James E. Irby (via frenchtwist)
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