Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939
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Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCStyle is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863