Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981
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You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCOne should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
—Georges Bataille, 1957Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCMany need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939