It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987
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I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleMost vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543