I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715
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Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCSpeak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCThe Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverb