The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929
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What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbTo blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCSanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425