I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956
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What 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, 1621The happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCIf you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerThe sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728