I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
—Jonathan Swift, 1726Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895