The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950
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It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbTo escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BC