I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931
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That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908