Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100