Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940
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The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborHistory does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCI used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?
—Dong Zhongshu, c. 120 BCImagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951