However much you may acquire, you will always wish to acquire more; satiety is a dream which will always elude you.

The boa constrictor, when he has had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most part, are not like this

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Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet.

Tuberculars and syphilitics, there’s the history of art in Europe—the public, the social, tuberculosis, or the private, the shameful, syphilis.