"On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever."

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“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”

“The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.”

“Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.”

“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”

“When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.”

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"And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do."

— Alexander McCall Smith

Literature1948

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"Art has a harmony which parallels that of nature. The people who tell you that the artist is always inferior to nature are idiots! He is parallel to it. Unless, of course, he deliberately intervenes. …"

— Paul Cézanne

Art1872–1947

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"Michael Loux, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame"

— Michael J. Loux

Philosophy1942

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"No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men…"

— James Madison

Politics1749–1812

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