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But that is not a man, that’s a mushroom!”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince

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Michael Dean • 5 cards
for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Right out of Kafka: the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing is the person who is ridiculous. (Idea: Kafka at an AmherstlMt. Holyoke mixer, never referred to by name, only as “F. K. ,” only one not dancing . . . ) Modern party-dance an evil thing.
David Foster Wallace • The Broom of the System: A Novel
“It always seems to me, when I go somewhere, that I am lower than everyone else and that they all take me for a buffoon—so let me indeed play the buffoon, because all of you, to a man, are lower and stupider than I am.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Cicero may have been making a similar point when he joked in a letter to his friend Atticus about the ‘the crap’ or ‘the dregs’ of Romulus. He was poking fun at one of his contemporaries, who, he said, addressed the senate as if he were living ‘in the Republic of Plato’, referring to the philosopher’s ideal state – ‘when in fact he is in the faex (
... See moreMary Beard • SPQR
The judges, however, wisely rejected that argument, quoting Thurgood Marshall's observation that given the mysteries of human motivation, “it would be unwise to presume as a matter of law that human beings of one definable group will not discriminate against other members of their group.”