That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918
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Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCFriendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962