Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan
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Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1786A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951