The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650
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If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCOne should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
—Boethius, c. 520I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833