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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f34fe3 | What a lark! What a plunge! | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0742319 | What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?" | inspirational selflessness woman | Virginia Woolf | |
| 17cd2e1 | How fast the stream flows from January to December! | Virginia Woolf | ||
| be45060 | alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know | condemned deserted die freedom isolation joy | Virginia Woolf | |
| b4e61e7 | The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 4422631 | and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 7b790f8 | Big Ben struck the half hour. How extraordinary it was, strange, yes, touching, to see the old lady (they had been neighbors ever so many years) move away from the window, as if she were attached to that sound, that string. Gigantic as it was, it had something to do with her. Down, down, into the midst of ordinary things the finger fell making the moment solemn. She was forced, so Clarissa imagined, by that sound, to move, to go - but where.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| dd22d23 | My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0bba324 | Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker's. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| d8b3963 | Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that, a woman of such brilliance, such strangeness, such immeasurable sorrow; a woman who had genius but still filled her pocket with a stone and waded out into a river. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| d97641a | What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing t.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| cba86f2 | Yet he too obsessed me for years. Until I wrote it out, I would find my lips moving; I would be arguing with him; raging against him; saying to myself all that I never said to him. How deep they drove themselves into me, the things it was impossible to say aloud. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| cc8d91f | And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to life? Yes, it is all true to life. All this can happen to a man. The ardent youth of today would start back in horror if you could show him his portrait in old age. As you pass from the soft years of youth into harsh, hardening manhood, be sure you take with you on the way all the humane emotions, do not leave them on the road:.. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 7484a0d | And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion | Gogol Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 34bdd52 | Another example of how a metaphor can create new meaning for us came about by accident. An Iranian student, shortly after his arrival in Berkeley, took a seminar on metaphor from one of us. Among the wondrous things that he found in Berkeley was an expression that he heard over and over and understood as a beautifully sane metaphor. The expression was "the solution of my problems"--which he took to be a large volume of liquid, bubbling and .. | theories-of-meaning | George Lakoff | |
| 9a55229 | They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| a0179e2 | Dear Reader, Dante Alighieri said, in his Inferno: "Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift." Dante lied. Our fate must be worked for. It must be paid for. With tears. With blood. With everything we have. And it is not until the end, the very end, that we will know if it was worth it." | Courtney Cole | ||
| fc4c4a9 | Why have you let your mind get so entwined," my master said, "that you have slowed your walk? Why should you care about what's whispered here? Come, follow me, and let these people talk: stand like a sturdy tower that does not shake its summit though the winds may blast; always the man in whom thought thrusts ahead of thought allows the goal he's set to move far off- the force of one thought saps the other's force." | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 3581238 | And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| fb90064 | Meanwhile, the sword began to wilt into gory icicles, to slather and thaw. It was a wonderful thing, the way it all melted as ice melts when the Father eases the fetters off the frost and unravels the water-ropes. He who wields power over time and tide: He is the true Lord. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| c500ceb | Be advised my passport's green. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| a8db474 | Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy. | David Gemmell | ||
| b01a081 | If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite." | David Gemmell | ||
| c1a0200 | As for myself, however, today is the day, and I dare not wait for some slow cultural drift finally to pave the way that I might easily float into some nebulous social salvation. I cannot depend on 'them' 'out there' to order into coherency this small sphere of my only present now. | Joseph Chilton Pearce | ||
| cf00acd | I was full of struggles! And that made me so happy: If I was full of struggles, maybe I was interesting! | Sharon Creech | ||
| 2f07b8b | I could tell you an extensively strange story, I warned. Oh, good! Gram said. Delicious! | Sharon Creech | ||
| e33e1e0 | But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways. | young-adult young-adult-fiction young-adult-horror | Caroline B. Cooney | |
| 6e749c4 | That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f8390fc | I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f4edd4b | Losing yourself in a book is the best | Chris Columbus & Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5e84f09 | Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question. I guess you're supposed to put them around someone. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5b27857 | Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ad9b956 | Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 60ef454 | Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And seco.. | food humor pleasure travel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ddee995 | The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. | spirituality upanishads | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ea3ed0c | failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f2e5457 | We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. That supreme Self is our true identity, universal and divine. Before yo.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 12f2acc | But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6bec9d8 | Let people have their opinions. More than that--let people love their opinions, just as you and I are in love with ours. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 14e9c68 | There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. | elizbeth-gilbert love pray | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cf093e5 | we may fall victim to the misconception that time will heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we get older, we learn this sad truth: some things can never be fixed. Some mistakes can never be put right--not by the passage of time, and not by our most fervent wishes, either. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8fb79a2 | most marriages are neither heavenly nor hellish, but vaguely purgatorial. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6e23832 | She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2390b7f | Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. | Elizabeth Gilbert |