Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCA bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCThere is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005