There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983
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Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCNo one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750