Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939
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All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCI hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCIt is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605