Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905
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To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCI shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470