Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480
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Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516