To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881A 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, 1946Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCThe decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983