Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943