"An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult."

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Source : "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 296), 1963.

Frederick Rolfe

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“My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.”

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“After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"”

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“Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge”
“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.”
“A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute”
“We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety”
“I'll play until my knees fall off.”
“Stress is a message. It is a personal invitation to make a change for the better.”

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