"O virtue, I have followed you through..." - Quote by Euripides
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
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“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.”
“Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.”
“What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?”