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“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

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“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

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Il n'est pas de chagrin qu'un livre ne puisse consoler.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Elle est retrouvée!
Quoi? -l'Éternité.
C'est la mer allée
Avec le soleil.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“le sommeil d'un homme est chose sacrée.”
― Éric Dupont, La Fiancée américaine

“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

“Les graines de tournesol Krispy Kernel, c'est un peu de la marde, tu trouves pas? Ces gens-là sont en business depuis soixante ans (j'ai vérifié) et ils n'ont pas encore trouvé le moyen de produire des graines de tournesol convenables. J'appelle ça rire du monde. Premièrement, le taux d'écales vides par sac est scandaleusement élevé. Et puis, rien qu'à voir on voit bien qu'ils utilisent des graines de mauvaise qualité, toutes petites dont les écales ont tendance à se désagréger, tandis que les Lalumière éclatent sous la dent en produisant un tac! sonore avant de libérer de belles grosses graines. [...]”
― François Blais, Sam

“One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.”
― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Crever pour crever, je préfère crever de passion que de crever d'ennui !”
― Emile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“You say you're looking for beauty, but this isn't the way to achieve it, my dear friend. You won't find it while you look to yourself, as if everything revolved around you. Don't you see? It's exactly the other way around, precisely the other way around. You mustn't be careful, you must get hurt. What I am trying to explain, child, is that unless you allow the beauty you seek to hurt you, to break you and knock you down, you'll never find it.”
― Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“Les pas que je fis après avoir laissé Oroshi aux rapaces, ma déambulation hagarde, écrasée de tristesse, au bord du plateau vide, et saturé de chrones, vide et saturé sans cesse, vide, sur plus de trois mille kilomètres de marche, jusqu'à l'étendue de glace crevassée, cisaillée de crivetz, qui marque de manière si caractéristique la limite de la bande de Contre, ces pas, je ne les ai dus qu'à moi.”
― Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contrevent

“Nous sommes faits de l'étoffe dont sont tissés les vents.”
― Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contrevent

“Then let amourous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand and a Hundred score
A Hundred and a Thousand more”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela

“The things about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent...he speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains