Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994