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#1

“As far as she was concerned, the apocalypse was not the worst thing that could happen. The possibility of an immediate and wholesale decimation of civilization was not half as frightening as the simple realization that our individual passing had no impact on the order of things, and life would go on just the same with or without us. Now that, she had always thought, was terrifying.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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#2

“But human memory resembles a late-night reveller who has had a few too many drinks: hard as it tries, it just cannot follow a straight line. It staggers through a maze of inversions, often moving in dizzying zigzags, immune to reason and liable to collapse altogether.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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#3

“One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

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#4

“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein

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#5

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#6

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: advice

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#7

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: vulnerability

1892 likes

#8

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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#9

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

tags: self

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#10

“She burned too bright for this world.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

tags: life

2149 likes

#11

“Who has not been, or is not to be mad in some lonely hour of life? Who is quite safe from the trembling of the balance?”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

tags: balance, life, mental-health, vicissitude

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#12

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

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#13

“Beware how you give your heart.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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#14

“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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#15

“Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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#16

“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

tags: heartbreak, sensitive, warm-hearts

493 likes

#17

“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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#18

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: narrow-mind, open-mindedness, perspective

854 likes

#19

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: anguish, despair, fulfillment, hope

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#20

“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

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#21

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

tags: future, past

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#22

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

tags: couples, death, fellowship, love, marriage, memory, relationship, sadness, sorrow

676 likes

#23

“As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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#24

“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
― Charles Dickens (David Copperfield), David Copperfield

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#25

“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#26

“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

tags: dickens, love, our-mutual-friend

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#27

“And from the death of each day's hope, another hope sprang up to live tomorrow.”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

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#28

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

tags: epigram, paradox, truth, wisdom

2141 likes

#29

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology

2648 likes

#30

“Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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