The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbEducation is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952