Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866