All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921
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If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949