In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944
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The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCThe sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCCheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbThe human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600