"There ought to be behind the door of every happy, contented man some one standing with a hammer continually reminding him with a tap that there are unhappy people; that however happy he may be, life will show him her laws sooner or later, trouble will come for him -- disease, poverty, losses, and no one will see or hear, just as now he neither sees nor hears others." --Anton Chekhov
"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." --Antonio Gransci
"I am old, I am fat, I am ugly - but I am still Tetrazinni" --Luisa Tetrazzini
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now." --Samuel Beckett
"... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong." --George Eliot
"Unhappy the land that has no heroes!"
"No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.” --Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo
"Harmful literature is more useful than useful literature . . ." --Evgeny Zamyatin
"I was timid when I was young. Now that I'm eighty-five, I'm seriously terrified." --Jorge Luis Borges
"The more information one has to evaluate, the less one knows." --Marshall McLuhan
"It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg." --Anatole France
“We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.” --Simone Weil
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." --Vladimir Nabokov
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