“Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.”

— Frederick Rolfe , book Hadrian the Seventh

Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 22, p. 343

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