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aries (Mar. 21st-Apr. 20th)
“Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”–Sophocles

taurus (Apr. 21st-May 20th)
“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”–D.H. Lawrence

gemini (May 21st-June 21st)
“Where there’s marriage without love there will be love without marriage.”–Ben Franklin

cancer (June 22nd-July 22nd)
“One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man’s step when he climbs the stairs.”–Colette

leo (July 23rd-Aug. 22nd)
“If thou must choose
Between the chances, choose the odd;
Read the New Yorker; trust in God;
And take short views.”
— W.H. Auden

virgo (Aug. 23rd-Sept. 22nd)
“Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.”–Ben Jonson

libra (Sept. 23rd-Oct. 23rd)
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”–Leonardo da Vinci

scorpio (Oct. 24th-Nov. 22nd)
“Don’t lose
Your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it.”
— Burma-Shave, roadside advertisement

sagittarius (Nov. 23rd-Dec. 21st)
“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”–Samuel Butler

capricorn (Dec. 22nd-Jan. 20th)
“Shake and shake
The catsup bottle
None will come,
And then a lot’ll.”–Richard Armour

aquarius (Jan. 21st-Feb. 18th)
“Fortunately [psycho]analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”–Karen Horney

pisces (Feb. 19th-Mar. 20th)
“Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a very poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.”–Alfred North Whitehead