People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953
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A false report rides post.
—English proverbThe call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCThe law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949