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—James Joyce, 1922
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985