To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864
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Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666A false report rides post.
—English proverbTo blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840