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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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbOne form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813