The house seemed unnaturally still. Carrying his empty beer can, he went downstairs to see what Milly was doing, and he was halfway across the living room before he realized that he had four sons.
-- Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road.
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And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
-- Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader."
I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much esprit?
-- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.
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