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"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
— Jeffrey Eugenides

tags: life
106 people liked it

"Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly"
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)

18 people liked it

"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubborness of life."
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)

15 people liked it

"The zipper opened all the way down our spines."
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)

8 people liked it

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
— William Blake

tags: love
35 people liked it

"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
— William Blake

34 people liked it

"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."
— William Blake

tags: inspirational
22 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

832 people liked it

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

370 people liked it

"Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

tags: honor
6 people liked it

"Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?"
— Thornton Wilder

8 people liked it

"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate."
— Thornton Wilder

7 people liked it

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
— Thornton Wilder

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"The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude."
— Thornton Wilder

tags: gratitude
7 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,997 people liked it

"A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages."
— Tennessee Williams

33 people liked it

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: day, dreaming, dreams, night
578 people liked it

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven: With, the Philosophy of Composition)

119 people liked it

"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

tags: truth
63 people liked it

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

tags: luck
15 people liked it

"Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?"
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

11 people liked it

"And always, there was the magic of learning things."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

7 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,602 people liked it

"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. "
— Jane Austen (Emma)

92 people liked it

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

71 people liked it

"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

tags: love
53 people liked it

"She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

tags: sensibility, women
39 people liked it

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."
— Jane Austen

9 people liked it

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