Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892
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Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCIt’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625