Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715