Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCI look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCTomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BC