My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.
Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little always share.
Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
— You told me you had destroyed it.
— I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
"For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical."
"My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about."
I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy.
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.
I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.
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