Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.
—Oliver Sacks, 2012