To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925A brilliant boxing match, quicksilver in its motions, transpiring far more rapidly than the mind can absorb, can have the power that Emily Dickinson attributed to great poetry: you know it’s great when it takes the top of your head off.
—Joyce Carol Oates, 1987Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945A false report rides post.
—English proverbThere was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908