If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804
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Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCAt the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BC