Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCThere lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510