The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCAmong all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962