Vivre, naturellement, n'est jamais facile. On continue ? faire les gestes que l'existence commande, pour beaucoup de raisons dont la première est l'habitude. Mourir volontairement suppose qu'on a reconnu, même instinctivement, le caractère dérisoire de cette habitude, l'absence de toute raison profonde de vivre, le caractère insensé de cette agitation quotidienne et l'inutilité de la souffrance.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Georges Canguilhem

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Winston Churchill

Your dreams will come true... if you can see it... if you believe in it... then you can achieve it.

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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.

Christopher Hitchens

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Kurt Vonnegut

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Ellie Goulding

We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.

D.W. (David Wark) Griffith

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

Oscar Wilde

Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck's back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there to be wasted.

Geoff Dyer

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson