Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992
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He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCJazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardThe more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817