The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919
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When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCA multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805Those 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, 1580A 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, 1946Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904