Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCWhen a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCAll men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949