Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCBereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807