After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949
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If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleMedication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCNothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387