The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908