"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."

Nabokov, Vladimir | Imagination | 1 bookmarks

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar | Life and Living | 6 bookmarks

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco | Uniqueness | 8 bookmarks

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

Wilde, Oscar | Moderation | 1 bookmarks

"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

Wilde, Oscar | Modern and Modernism | 2 bookmarks

"Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Bankhead, Tallulah | Excess | 3 bookmarks

"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."

Proust, Marcel | Neurosis | 2 bookmarks

"Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it."

Proust, Marcel | Neurosis | 1 bookmarks

"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."

Dali, Salvador | Drugs | 3 bookmarks

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Proust, Marcel | Memory | 1 bookmarks