Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893
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I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCThe mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961