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I sometimes think what a grand thing it will be to be able to say to oneself, 'Death is over now; there is not that experience to be faced again.'

Lewis Carroll, letter to Louisa Dodgson, 9/28/1896.

Look you, nature! I don’t deny that your clover is sweet, and your dandelions don't roar; but whose hailstones smashed my windows?

Herman Melville, The Confidence Man (1857).

--in what way can our treatise thoroughly investigate the meaning of the Divine Names, when the superessential Deity is shewn to be without Name, and above Name?

pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite, "The Divine Names" (C5).

Non-Euclidian geometries, on one hand, and the rise of Functions in number theory, on the other, seemed to Spengler to spell the end of Western man.

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964).

Night favors all alike, but most the brave.

Euripides, The Phoenician Women (408 BC).

Probably one could say that this thing itself is probable:
Many improbable things happen to mortals.

Agathon, quoted in Aristotle, Rhetoric.

...it is logical that many things happen which are illogical.
Agathon, quoted in Aristotle, Poetics.

...many an Elizabethan dirge is a more potent affirmation of life than all the 1860s optimistic odes.

Tom Boggs, Fifty One Neglected Lyrics (1937).