I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976
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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCEvery man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944