The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935
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Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813