From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851
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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC