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
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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, 1957Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985There 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, 1965All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCThere is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832