We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel-

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Alexander Trocchi

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Rosa Luxemburg

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Oscar Wilde

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Sophocles

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Carl Gustav Jung

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Joseph Addison, "in the Spectato

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

Dave Barry

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

William Butler Yeats

Hey guys!Wish you were here, except not really. We're having fun. Check it out-the pyramids!-Alec and Magnus

Cassandra Clare