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#1

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

tags: love, opera

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#2

“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

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#3

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

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“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: love, writing

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#5

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

tags: books, time

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#6

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

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#7

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

tags: books

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#8

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

tags: madness, sanity

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#9

“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

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#10

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#11

“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

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#12

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

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#13

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

tags: books

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#14

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

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#15

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

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#16

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

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#17

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

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#18

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#19

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading

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#20

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

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#21

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

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#22

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

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#23

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#24

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

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#25

“In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”
― Alice B. Toklas

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#26

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#27

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#28

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

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#29

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

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#30

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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