The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983
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Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850