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“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)