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In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur1822–1895Lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854)
- Luck
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All glory is fleeting.
George S. Patton1885–1945
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton1885–1945
Myth is the nothing that is everything.
Fernando Pessoa1888–1935Poem “Ulisses”, verse 1
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
Every positive value has its price in negative terms. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.
Sylvia Plath1932–1963The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 1, Opening line
No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book X, 604cIn context
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Letter to George W. Eveleth (January 4, 1848).
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Raven (1844), Stanza 18.In context
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Raven (1845)In context
The disease had sharpened my senses⁠—not destroyed⁠—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)In context
My brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder⁠—there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters⁠—and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the “House of Usher.”
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)In context
How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Eloisa to Abelard (1717), Line 207.