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What hath night to do with sleep?

—John Milton, 1637

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

—Norman Douglas, 1917

An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.

—George Jackson, 1971

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

—Flannery O’Connor, 1964

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter

—Emily Dickinson, 1863

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1787

After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

—Amelia Earhart, 1935

I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.

—William Drummond, 1616

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938