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  • #2
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

  • #3
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #4
    “Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”
    Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #7
    Paul Auster
    “Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
    Paul Auster

  • #8
    Charlotte Brontë
    “The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #9
    Anne Brontë
    “It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”
    Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #12
    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #14
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    Aristotle

  • #15
    Helene Hanff
    “I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
    Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

  • #16
    George Orwell
    “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #17
    Wilkie Collins
    “Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #18
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre



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