“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”
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Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot
Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless".
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Source: Moab Is My Washpot
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Worth living for, too.”
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A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson http://www.4literature.net/William_Cullen_Bryant/Scene_on_the_Banks_of_the_Hudson/, st. 3 (1828)
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
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Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 4.
