#excess

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

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Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ↗

— Voltaire

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One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service. ↗

— Sean Hannity

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Everything in excess is opposed to nature. ↗

— Hippocrates

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It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. ↗

— Will Oldham

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The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status. ↗

— David F. Houston

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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Excess is success. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

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