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#1

“A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#2

“What is dark within me, illumine.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

287 likes

#3

“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: paradise-lost

247 likes

#4

“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: freedom

230 likes

#5

“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: devil, lucifer, satan

361 likes

#6

“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#7

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

502 likes

#8

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, lucifer, rebellion, revolt, satan

614 likes

#9

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: darkness, light, struggle

727 likes

#10

“Pandemonium, the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built of the deep: the infernal peers there sit in council.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#11

“Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#12

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

615 likes

#13

“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

565 likes

#14

“What you want most you push away from you.
You want more than you care to admit.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Bridges

tags: relationships

365 likes

#15

“The pine needles stretch their tongues and sing an unfamiliar nocturnal song. Each tongue is so small that it cannot be heard; together the sound is so deep and powerful that it could level the hills if it wished.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

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#16

“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

tags: childhood

37 likes

#17

“There's a young girl in me who refuses to die.”
― Tove Ditlevsen

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#18

“Meanwhile I am only twenty years old, and the days descend on me un-noticeably like dust, each one just like the rest.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, The Copenhagen Trilogy

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#19

“Childhood is dark and it’s always moaning like a little animal that’s locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it’s too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly. It’s only when it has been cast off that you can look at it calmly and talk about it like an illness you’ve survived.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

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#20

“Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it - it has no other meaning.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Youth

tags: youth, youthfulness

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#21

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101489 likes

#22

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

60133 likes

#23

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50676 likes

#24

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45260 likes

#25

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

42264 likes

#26

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

28775 likes

#27

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: existence, truth

4913 likes

#28

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

868 likes

#29

“Children inherit their parents' madness.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: genius, humor, truth

45 likes

#30

“I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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