Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918
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I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbI don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCIt is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949