It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658
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Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCThe wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951