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“....I am not going to stir those old pools; I take only what chance has floated to my feet—that was far more vigorous and far more vocal a century ago.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Eat or die, the saying goes, but to my ears it sounded like just one more unpleasant threat.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein