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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.

—Chinua Achebe, 1960

The twilight is the crack between the worlds.

—Carlos Castaneda, 1968

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

—Cicero, 45 BC

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1897

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

—Erica Jong, 1973

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973

Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.

—Charles Lamb, 1805

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.

—W.H. Auden, 1946

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

—Anton Chekhov, 1904