It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000
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Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThe brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCEven a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCUnder all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838