What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
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