Some quotations

ALGERNON: How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you up to town?
JACK: Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring anyone anywhere?
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows a lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Naked Masks
- Luigi Pirandello, title of play-collection

Don't be afraid of pleasure.
- Pedro Almodovar

Seen the world. Didn't like it.
- John Cooper Clarke

Innocence is pain in disguise.
- Gary Numan

I don't take naps, I take siestas. There's a big difference.
- Debbie Harry

If you think you are free,
You are free.
If you think you are bound,
You are bound.
- The Ashtavakra Gita

Nothing of value can happen to a mind which knows exactly what it wants.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Some devotees collected round [Swami Ramdas] one day and bagan to ask for liberation. Ramdas listened smilingly and then suddenly he became serious and said: "You can have it, here and now, freedom absolute and permanent. Who wants it, come forward." Nobody moved. Then he repeated the offer. None accepted. Then he said, "The offer is withdrawn."
- Anecdote reported during a conversation with Maharaj.

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