What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125
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The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948The happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918