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Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.”
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

Samuel Beckett
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
Rumi

Susan Sontag
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
Susan Sontag, On Photography

Susan Sontag
“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.”
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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