Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899
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Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCSeize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThe features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbThe human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951