Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868
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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCReason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866