Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCOne’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCThere is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCTo eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BC