These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908
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I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCWere I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “artist.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1849Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbThe only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879