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my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

—The Bible

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.

—Phillis Wheatley, 1774

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

—E. R. Dodds, 1951

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

—Lucretius, 50 BC

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.

—E.M. Cioran, 1949

Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.

—Czesław Miłosz, 1960

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

—Karl Kraus, c. 1910

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936