The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970
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To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCMemory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbAlmsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949