The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

They grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee: Their graves are severed far and wide By mount and stream and sea.

Felicia Hemans

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man.... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Albert Camus

I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.

Andrea Riseborough

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oscar Wilde

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

Sarah Zettel

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Henry Ward Beecher

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

Kim Kardashian

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

Tim Berners Lee

Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning. Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully. Now, no one will live this fate, knowing it to be absurd, unless he does everything to keep before him that absurd brought to light by consciousness.

Albert Camus

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Gertrude Stein

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Ellen Glasgow