To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978
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Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944Art 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, 1860The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583