A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969
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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956