I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879
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A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbEven a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCI order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963