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God is alive. Magic is afoot.

—Leonard Cohen, 1966

I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC

If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.

—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

—John Locke, 1689

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1852

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

The mind of man is capable of anything.

—Guy de Maupassant, 1884

One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.

—Ernst Jünger, 1977

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989

If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.

—John Ruskin, 1865

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

—Chinese proverb

Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.

—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612