The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BC