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#1

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

#2

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

3918 likes

#3

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: control, defeat, humanity, life

2215 likes

#4

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

1359 likes

#5

“I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#6

“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: inspirational

271 likes

#7

“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: inspriational-quotes

208 likes

#8

“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

163 likes

#9

“Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

139 likes

#10

“I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: inspirational

75 likes

#11

“I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: african-american-literature, fiction, humor, rsas

93 likes

#12

“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

129 likes

#13

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2196 likes

#14

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness

2488 likes

#15

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

669 likes

#16

“The mind of man is capable of anything.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: apocalypse-now, man, mind

340 likes

#17

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: kurtz, the-horror

309 likes

#18

“The horror! The horror!”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: kurtz, the-horror

256 likes

#19

“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

205 likes

#20

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

17419 likes

#21

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll

5426 likes

#22

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

5170 likes

#23

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery

3501 likes

#24

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

2842 likes

#25

“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

2211 likes

#26

“It is always better
to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.
For every one of us, living in this world
means waiting for our end. Let whoever can
win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,
that will be his best and only bulwark.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

tags: life, poetry, revenge

195 likes

#27

“Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

129 likes

#28

“I shall gain glory or die.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

53 likes

#29

“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

tags: beowulf, beowulf-seamus-heaney, coast-guard

124 likes

#30

“That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

tags: hell, hope, paganism

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