“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.