My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Category: Self
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Self
The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself. РDom̩nico Cieri Estrada Category: Self
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. – George Orwell Category: Intelligence
