Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987