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Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

—Jane Austen, 1811

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.

—Lawrence Durrell, 1957

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

—Jean Genet, 1986

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

—Martin Luther, c. 1530

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.

—Winnie Mandela, 1985

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

All pain is one malady with many names.

—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

What hath night to do with sleep?

—John Milton, 1637

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

—Paul Valéry, 1943

A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832