The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCGod is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCGod walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937