This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975
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Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599