The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982
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Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951