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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6ec5d9 | Le supreme bonheur de la vie, c'est la conviction qu'on est aime; aime pour soi-meme, disons mieux, aime malgre soi-meme. | love | Victor Hugo | |
| 7aada81 | He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4d70d20 | Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 10c42e3 | All is over...I have nothing but you, remember that." "I can never forget what is my whole life." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| eee033c | He thought of nothing, wished for nothing, but not to be left behind the peasants, and to do his work as well as possible. He heard nothing but the swish of scythes, and saw before him Tit's upright figure mowing away, the crescent-shaped curve of the cut grass, the grass and flower heads slowly and rhythmically falling before the blade of his scythe, and ahead of him the end of the row, where would come the rest. Suddenly, in the midst of .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| cfb17e9 | Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. | goodness truth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| db4dce0 | I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds of love serve a touchstone for men. Some men understand only the one, some only the other. Those who understand only the non-platonic love need not speak of tragedy. For such love there can be no tragedy. "Thank you kindly for the pleasure, good bye," and that's the whole tragedy. And for the platonic love there can be no tragedy either, becau.. | constantine-dmitrich-levin leo-tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| f60a745 | It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession as evil, is ashamed of it. But the contrary is true. People whom fate and their sin-mistakes have placed in a certain position, however false that position may be, form a view of life in general which makes their position seem good and admissible. In order to keep up their view of life, these people instinctively keep to the circle of those pe.. | societal-norms wealth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| d911cf0 | Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be. | respect | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 36e566d | What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, if you love the work, you will find your reward in that. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 719601f | And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever. | sadness-lonelyness | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 00b134b | And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the external law, when they are not in agreement with the divine law of love which he acknowledges (as is usually the case with state obligations), he cannot even recognize the duty of obedience to anyone or anything whatever, he cannot recognize the duty of what is called allegiance. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a66804a | Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them. | daily-life marriage | Leo Tolstoy | |
| abfba38 | In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7f02f11 | Alice knows everything about me, and accepts the fact that we can be together for only a short while. She has agreed to go away when I tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 403e682 | The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 34a4e0c | I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 04d9a68 | When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 925fcc5 | One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Bronte had possessed say three hundred a year -- but the foolish woman sold the copyright of her novels outright for fifteen hundred pounds; had somehow possessed more knowledge of the busy world, and towns and regions full of life; more practical experience, and intercourse with her kind and acquaintance with a variety of character. In those words.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 1bc323d | There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 5a9f8c3 | The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| f97a333 | Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. | nighttime | Charlotte Brontë | |
| a0bc759 | With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not to complain that such an object is too selfish, too limited, and lacks interest; be content to labour for independence until you have proved, by winning that prize, your right to look higher. But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life -- no true home -- nothing to be dearer to me than myself and by its paramount precio.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 6e8fc2d | Never listen to fools who dis as being a story about a girl who gets her mean man. This is a character who gets what she wants and lives on her own terms by having moral fortitude, intelligence, courage, imagination and a will of iron. And that is one hell of a checklist. Imagine Charlotte Bronte writing this book in 1847. What a powerful story for women living at that time! | women-s-strength | Fiona Wood | |
| 076e701 | The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need to try to be attractive. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 246fa33 | And that lack of fear has gotten me into a lot of trouble and cost me a lot of happiness. God intended women to be timid frightened creatures and there's something unnatural about a woman who isn't afraid... Scarlett, always save something to fear--even as you save something to love... | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 9fc50a8 | A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 26236a3 | tksw wjhh t`s@ Smth, t`s@ nsn syq lmwjh@ lHqy'q, `ndm tkwn lHqy'q kskrt lmwt. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 56be757 | The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along. | Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason | ||
| 3759d5d | The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work? | Adam Rex | ||
| f0d5a59 | One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eterni.. | immortality love poetry | Edmund Spenser | |
| 0415fbf | Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 48c3a65 | I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything." | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 6fce600 | At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| df40635 | It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession." | obsession | Mary Gaitskill | |
| e6c761c | Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding. | monte-verita | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 4cb3264 | You had to endure something yourself before it touched you. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| aa43919 | When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman's hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 265d2b8 | I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. I was a child yesterday. I had not forgotten. But Maxim's grandmother, sitting there in her shawl with her poor blind eyes, what did she feel, what was she thinking? Did she know that Beatrice was yawning and glancing at her watch? Did she guess that we had come to visit her because we felt it right, it was a duty, .. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a0ee536 | He took her face in his hands and kissed it, and she saw that he was laughing. "When you're an old maid in mittens down at Helford, you'll remember that," he said, "and it will have to last you to the end of your days. 'He stole horses,' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| d3c8fba | The search for God begins at the point of need. | weakness | Catherine Marshall | |
| 8b42111 | A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do. | Bill Clinton | ||
| 4fb915b | When I was young. When I had no idea that all over the city, all over the world, there were people walking around sealed in their own universes of loss, independent solar systems of suffering closed off from the regular world, where things make sense and language is all you need to tell the truth. -- | Ariel Levy | ||
| e84ecc3 | I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don't mind leaving nearly everything behind. | Beth Revis |