Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939
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Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCWere I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “artist.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1849What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
—Hannah Arendt, 1972