Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbWants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbThe best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677