For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000
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Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCAll pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCPeace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCThe bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC