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#1

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

tags: books, library

#2

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

tags: dream, fate, hope

2587 likes

#3

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

1304 likes

#4

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

tags: human-nature, love

2891 likes

#5

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

1842 likes

#6

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

4520 likes

#7

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

4467 likes

#8

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

tags: life

2112 likes

#9

“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
― Philip Barry, The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts

tags: the-philadelphia-story, tracy-lord

979 likes

#10

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

62228 likes

#11

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

4146 likes

#12

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

3252 likes

#13

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

4110 likes

#14

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

2068 likes

#15

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

37364 likes

#16

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

tags: intelligence, mind, poverty

4090 likes

#17

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

tags: past, yesterday

1089 likes

#18

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17570 likes

#19

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

2579 likes

#20

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

2572 likes

#21

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

4669 likes

#22

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84939 likes

#23

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

3089 likes

#24

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

tags: christmas

3126 likes

#25

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

tags: books

6772 likes

#26

“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

7669 likes

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