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Life is no way to treat an animal.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

—Aristotle, c. 340 BC

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”

—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

—Che Guevara, 1968

Home is wherever I go.

—Indira Gandhi, 1955

Life’s no resting, but a moving.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949