An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892