The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950I 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, 1900It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCReading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894