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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 96f1966 | Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes. | independence | Virginia Woolf | |
| cada5c6 | Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each other as well as the original. Virginia Woolf had a beautiful vision of generations interlinked in this way: of how "minds are threaded together- how any live mind is of the very same stuff as Plato's & Euripides... It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is.. | Sarah Bakewell | ||
| d29a202 | I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0299ad0 | I have had my vision. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b1c3840 | Death is woven in with the violets," said Louis. "Death and again death.")" -- | violets | Virginia Woolf | |
| 25402be | Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| a2ae3b4 | I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember. | narrator personal the-waves virginia-woolf | Virginia Woolf | |
| 41ad358 | The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3cdb601 | This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 56a7ce5 | a quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner... | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 06fbee0 | O grace abounding and allowing me to dare to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light, so deep my vision was consumed in it! I saw how it contains within its depths all things bound in a single book by love of which creation is the scattered leaves: how substance, accident, and their relation were fused in such a way that what I now describe is but a glimmer of that Light. | theophany | Dante Alighieri | |
| 11ac016 | Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way into eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 3b37a17 | A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| a845d5f | This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| d4e1298 | My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 855c32d | There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery-- | inferno mistakes | Dante Alighieri | |
| 909d8f7 | We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences. To be truthful I am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists I have not discovered it. | David Gemmell | ||
| a5743ce | Am I supposed to do something ? It doesn't seem enough to merely take up space on this planet in this country in this state in this town in this family. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 527480f | Nobody had told me I was common. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d6e463a | never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 596b9f9 | Do you have difficulty sleeping?" "Sometimes not. When I do it's bad, though. I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2dd0c81 | I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9a110d2 | There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ccfec5f | You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering--no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f8da758 | To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. | passion sex | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 8399f86 | If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1b96c7a | Let it be sufficient to say that, on this night, he was still my lighthouse and albatross in equal measure. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f9820bb | your life is short and rare and amazing and miraculous, and you want to do really interesting things and make really interesting things while you're still here. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 232fb13 | Any beautiful mind, full of ideas, would always express itself in the most natural, simple and straightforward way, anxious to communicate its thoughts to others (if this is at all possible) and thus relieve the solitude that he must experience in a world such as this: but conversely, intellectual poverty, confusion and wrong-headedness, clothe themselves in the most laboured expressions and obscure turns of phrase in order to conceal petty.. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| b1bb3d1 | He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 2ed284a | I could not help but comment to my distinguished audience that every question asked about Sartre concerned his work, while all those asked about Beauvoir concerned her personal life. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 24bc1d3 | The category of Other is as original as consciousness itself. The duality between Self and Other can be found in the most primitive societies, in the most ancient mythologies; the division did not always fall into the category of the division of the sexes (...) No group ever defines itself as One without immediately setting up the Other opposite itself. It only takes three travelers brought together by chance in the same train compartment f.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 470741f | If I want to define myself, I first have to say, "I am a woman"; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth. A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious." -- | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| f1008b0 | It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness. | past | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 6cc60a2 | Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along. | David James Duncan | ||
| e774abf | If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 029c5d9 | Coraline sighed. 'You really don't understand do you?' she said. 'I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted, just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then? | neil gaiman | ||
| 32d50b7 | What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 926da83 | Your turn in the chair next time," said October. "I know," said November. He was pale and thin-lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. "I like your stories. Mine are always too dark." "I don't think so," said October. "It's just that your nights are longer. And you aren't as warm." "Put it like that," said November, "and I feel better. I suppose we can't help who we are." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e599064 | I remember Icarus. He flew too close to the sun. In the stories, though, it's worth it. Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor forever. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1c93389 | How you want your coffee?" she asked her guests. "Here we take it black as night, sweet as sin." -- | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b9a2298 | I woke myself in the darkness, and I knew only that a dream had scared me so badly that I had to wake up or die, and yet, try as I might, I could not remember what I had dreamed. The dream was haunting me: standing behind me, present and yet invisible, like the back of my head, simultaneously there and not there. | nightmares | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8f5a3b2 | I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5c8c691 | DESTRUCTION: Our sister [Death] defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom. MORPHEUS: And what do I define, by this theory of yours. DESTRUCTION: Reality, perhaps. | Neil Gaiman |