An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON DISSIPATION
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... "
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980, American short-story writer, novelist)
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