What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807
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I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing