“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC