"The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues."

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. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne