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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4d15d4a | Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance. | freedom | Leo Tolstoy | |
| f5927c8 | I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right. | love | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 530de66 | It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you." | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 633e748 | So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time." "I hope not. It's a girl." | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 71414c9 | Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don't need to worry about me; I have a college education. I'm not destitute. I'm living like this by choice. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a267790 | But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ba9d34e | God, did they ? A year made the world of difference! This was one more year I could be with Jason, one more year I could ! I signed up for three hundred years. . . not three hundred and one! | Beth Revis | ||
| df6df9d | You're just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house, so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else-- find the boy who lit the fire in the first place, to see if you can change him. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 00ecebb | All men are born free: just not for long. | education-system equality | John le Carré | |
| e073d2a | It's just... I wish it was easier, for me, you know?" I make a special point not to look at her. "I wish it was someone else who was chosen for this. Someone competent. If only I didn't stop that robbery. I wish I didn't have to go through with it all." It comes gushing out, with words like spilled milk. "And I wish it was me with you and not that other guy. I wish it was my own skin touching with yours..." And there you have it. Stupidity .. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4089045 | Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 75879e9 | I believe in the Supreme Being, in a Creator, whatever he may be. I care little who has placed us here below to fulfil our duties as citizens and fathers of families; but I don't need to go to church to kiss silver plates, and fatten, out of my pocket, a lot of good-for-nothings who live better than we do. For one can know him as well in a wood, in a field, or even contemplating the eternal vault like the ancients. My God! mine is the God o.. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| f487f4e | I should like to make life beautiful--I mean everybody's life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it." I call that the fanaticism of sympathy," said Will, impetuously. "You might say the same of landscape, of poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it ou.. | George Eliot | ||
| b0c92b3 | Since you think it my duty, Mr. Farebrother, I will tell you that I have too strong a feeling for Fred to give him up for any one else. I should never be quite happy if I thought he was unhappy for the loss of me. It has taken such deep root in me--my gratitude to him for always loving me best, and minding so much if I hurt myself, from the time when we were very little. I cannot imagine any new feeling coming to make that weaker. | love | George Eliot | |
| 374e9d3 | Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness. | infatuation | George Eliot | |
| 1eb0a30 | She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. | preception truth | George Eliot | |
| 5b5970f | I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3aa9d8e | For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground. | life time | Virginia Woolf | |
| 018ba67 | And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 7e14155 | The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. | transformation | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 560974a | I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this... | inspirational life nature | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 18e9e71 | I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy--I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. I hate to be love's executioner. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 15c5425 | I was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: "I have no comfort but in my absolute despair." | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| d234027 | I would read. I would explore | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 52f6c5b | The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place that wished to be deceived, and, to this end, he had named himself from a lie in a fairy tale, and created himself--his clothes, his manner, his carriage--as a grand joke. There was a dull pain in his wrists and his feet, and he was finding it ha.. | lady-door marquis-de-carabas neil-gaiman neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | |
| 81d1d39 | It's part of growing up, I suppose...you always have to leave something behind you. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fc0c180 | You don't pass or fail at being a human, dear. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0411408 | flkutbu m'mwn@ ljnb 'kthr mn lns `l~ kul Hl | الكتب القراءة | Neil Gaiman | |
| 419a428 | So, you figure they won't notice you're back?" sneered the marquis. "Just, 'oh look, there's another angel, here, grab a harp and on with the hosannas'?" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7dc88f6 | I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7013c67 | The fun comes in telling them yourself--something I warmly encourage you to do, you person reading this. Read the stories in this book, then make them your own, | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6a0c138 | There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book. | book-lovers book-quotes books boys love-for-books | Neil Gaiman | |
| 9e87565 | If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9cf4f73 | Thank you for coming. Enjoy the things that never happened. Secure your own mask again after you read these stories, but do not forget to help others. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e194757 | A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. | golding-bright ice-skating progress | George Bernard Shaw | |
| fb061b6 | a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 42205a3 | Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot." -- | A.S. Byatt | ||
| bb75f8f | The problem is that we humans are deep conformists. | strengths | Robert Greene | |
| 23b2e6f | The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds. | emotions whole-self | Robert Greene | |
| bee5f61 | You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship. | life love relationships | Mitch Albom | |
| 654ec10 | What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up." | jane love mourning sad | John Scalzi | |
| 10c4657 | I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate. | John Scalzi | ||
| 99c200d | It's easy to win. Anybody can win. | life-and-living loser winning | Philip K. Dick | |
| 9336a2f | Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign. | Frances Mayes |