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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

—Marcel Marceau, 1958

Wood 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. 1790

The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.

—George Eliot, 1860

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. 

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

As man disappears from sight, the land remains.

—Maori proverb

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

—Eva Perón, 1949

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

—Simone Weil, 1947

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

Freedom 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, 1961

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987