“One regrets the loss even of one’s worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one’s personality.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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— Sandra Cisneros, from Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; “Little Miracles, Kept Promises,”
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— Emil Cioran
I’m not doing awfully well but I’m trying very, very, very hard,
Anne Sexton, from a letter to Florence Ehrhardt, c. February 1974
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