The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCWater is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCIntolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851