It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897
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The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986