To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCThe past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984