William Faulkner

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• The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

  Requiem for a Nun (1951)

  • History
  • Time

• People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  As I Lay Dying (1930), Addie

  • Religion

• Clocks slay time. … Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

  The Sound and the Fury (1929), “June Second, 1910”In context

  • Time

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy