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  • #1
    Jeff Chu
    “Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.”
    Chu Jeff

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

    "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

    "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #3
    Thomas Lovell Beddoes
    “Love? Do I love? I walk
    Within the brilliance of another's thought,
    As in a glory. I was dark before,
    as Venus' chapel in the black of night:
    But there was something holy in the darkness,
    Softer and not so thick as the other where;
    And as rich moonlight may be to the blind,
    Unconsciously consoling. Then love came,
    Like the out-bursting of a trodden star.”
    Thomas Lovell Beddoes
    tags: love

  • #4
    John Green
    “because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
    John Green

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #6
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
    Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

  • #15
    L.M. Montgomery
    “If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
    L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

  • #16
    L.M. Montgomery
    “There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.”
    L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

  • #17
    L.M. Montgomery
    “The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.”
    L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

  • #18
    George Eliot
    “O may I join the choir invisible
    Of those immortal dead who live again
    In minds made better by their presence; live
    In pulses stirred to generosity,
    In deeds of daring rectitude...”
    George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Still round the corner there may wait
    A new road or a secret gate
    And though I oft have passed them by
    A day will come at last when I
    Shall take the hidden paths that run
    West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #21
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
    Dorothy Sayers , Gaudy Night

  • #22
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

  • #23
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

  • #24
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

  • #25
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Placetne, magistra?"

    "Placet.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

  • #26
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #27
    Joe Queenan
    “People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.”
    Joe Queenan, One for the Books

  • #28
    Joe Queenan
    “A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.”
    Joe Queenan

  • #29
    Joe Queenan
    “I have never squandered an opportunity to read.”
    Joe Queenan

  • #30
    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    W.G. Sebald, Vertigo



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