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#1

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

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#2

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

tags: women

1876 likes

#3

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

5054 likes

#4

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: kiss, love, nature

2558 likes

#5

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

8700 likes

#6

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

4604 likes

#7

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: inspirational

1567 likes

#8

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

1607 likes

#9

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

1440 likes

#10

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

3563 likes

#11

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

1237 likes

#12

“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

tags: deeds, poet, words

884 likes

#13

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing

2418 likes

#14

“Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
― Hettie Jones

1047 likes

#15

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

tags: hidden-riches

1956 likes

#16

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: life, poetry

1776 likes

#17

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words

1563 likes

#18

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

1215 likes

#19

“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
― Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft – The Unconventional Genius Who Founded Modern Feminism and Influenced Political Philosophy

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#20

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational

3316 likes

#21

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

tags: naruto

1804 likes

#22

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

1440 likes

#23

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

3615 likes

#24

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

4766 likes

#25

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

1383 likes

#26

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

1666 likes

#27

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

tags: heaven, love

1304 likes

#28

“We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

tags: the-fayz

429 likes

#29

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

2052 likes

#30

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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