Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
Syphilis quotes
Syphilis
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Julian Barnes
Author
"WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you."
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