And in his search for sensations that would be at once new and delightful, and possess that element of strangeness that is essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, leave them with that curious indifference that is not compatible with a real ardour of temperament.
-Oscar Wilde
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