The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCYouth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCAfter midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902