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I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is...

Vladimir Nabokov

[Benjamin Peirce's] lectures were not easy to follow. They were never carefully prepared. The work with which he rapidly covered the blackboard was very illegible, marred with frequent erasures, and not infrequent mistakes (he worked too fast for acc...

William Elwood Byerly

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

The Complete Essays

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called .

Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims

I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.

Editorial

There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created....perfection.

The Essentials of Life

He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.

Eyrie

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

The High King

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

Black Beast

Happiness is a true wealth, which no money can buy.

Best Love Poems Collection

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Ambrose Bierce

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Amber Tamblyn

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Friedrich Schiller

My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.

Kristen Stewart

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

Kim Wilde

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler

I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

Sandra Bullock

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Gustave Flaubert

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes