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"It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too."
— Richard Curtis

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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,429 people liked it

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
— Jane Austen

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"Conventionality is not morality."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: morality
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"'Do you like him much?'
'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'
'Is he?'
'All boys are.'"
— Charlotte Brontë (Villette)

tags: boys
20 people liked it

"I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man."
— Mary Shelley (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman)

6 people liked it

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: neurosis
168 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

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"Trust me just this once - you are the opposite of ordinary.

- Edward Cullen"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: cullen, edward, twilight
431 people liked it

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;"
— Alexander Pope

tags: innocence
66 people liked it

"Great wits are to madness near allied / And thin partitions do their bounds divide."
— Alexander Pope

tags: madness, partitions, wits
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"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: dumbledore
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"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
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"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
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"The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books."
— George Gissing

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"Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast hath all
Those pieces still, though they be not unite;
And now, as broken glasses show
A hundred lesser faces, so
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,
But after one such love, can love no more."
— John Donne (The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne)

tags: broken-heart, love
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"That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
— Aphra Behn (The Lucky Chance)

tags: library, reading
7 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
418 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,146 people liked it

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."
— Bram Stoker

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"O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come."
— Richard Llewellyn (How Green Was My Valley)

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"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
— George Eliot

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"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
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"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

tags: love, romance
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"What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously.

"Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not."
— L.M. Montgomery

tags: true-to-life
6 people liked it

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

tags: books
832 people liked it

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle"
— Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)

77 people liked it

"I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all."
— Henry James

tags: judge, judgement, think
7 people liked it

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics)

tags: equality, feminism, women
26 people liked it

"People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls."
— Simone de Beauvoir (The Mandarins)

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"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."
— Simone de Beauvoir (The Woman Destroyed)

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"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
— Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex)

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"All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception."
— Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex)

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"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women
80 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,144 people liked it

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

323 people liked it

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
— William Shakespeare (Great Sonnets)

186 people liked it

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."
— William Shakespeare

tags: love, william-shakespeare
77 people liked it

"He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him. "
— William Shakespeare (King John)

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"I am a woman--when I think I must speak."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It: Applause First Folio Editions)

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"I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library."
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)

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"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
— Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)

112 people liked it

"I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over."
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

tags: majority, society
14 people liked it

"I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind."
— John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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"I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed."
— Djuna Barnes (Nightwood)

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"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
— George Sand

tags: el, husband, lenard, my
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"So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?"
"You're exactly my brand of heroin."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: cullen, edward, heroin, love, twilight
1,490 people liked it

"Literature is my Utopia"
— Helen Keller

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"I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be truly disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man."
— Anne Brontë

tags: authors, female, writing
9 people liked it

"It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. (Agnes Grey)

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— Anne Brontë (Agnes Grey)

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