Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988
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Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCSuffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCI was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949