#belongs

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#discover #nothing #pride #revelation #you

Dignity belongs to the conquered. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#conquered #dignity

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#both #breeding #candor #equally #frame

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#class #culture #how #matter #mature

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. ↗

— Diogenes

#drink #i #like #most #others

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#background #been #being #belongs #community

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#belongs #degrees #exclusive #imagination #men

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#belongs #exist #gypsies #improvisation #music

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #arts #belongs #common #does