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#1

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

tags: from-ulysses

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#2

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

tags: integrity

1894 likes

#3

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

4330 likes

#4

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

2161 likes

#5

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

1740 likes

#6

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

3455 likes

#7

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

5094 likes

#8

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6896 likes

#9

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12165 likes

#10

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

2276 likes

#11

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

tags: humor, life-lessons, wrestling

1485 likes

#12

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17084 likes

#13

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1581 likes

#14

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

1640 likes

#15

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

tags: correspondence, love, writers

800 likes

#16

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

3386 likes

#17

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

6492 likes

#18

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

tags: inspirational, life

2112 likes

#19

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9119 likes

#20

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6774 likes

#21

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

tags: future

1600 likes

#22

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

1792 likes

#23

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: courage, happiness, work

2775 likes

#24

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

2685 likes

#25

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

tags: poetry

716 likes

#26

“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1760 likes

#27

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

5289 likes

#28

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7665 likes

#29

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

3786 likes

#30

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

9445 likes

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