Quotes - Mélanie (hellomelanie) (Paris, France) Showing 1-30 of 58

#1

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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#2

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

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#3

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#4

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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#5

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#6

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

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#7

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

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#8

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#9

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

tags: business, career, inspirational, self-help, self-help-women, women

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#10

“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#11

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#12

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#13

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#14

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

tags: finding-yourself, searching, travel

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#15

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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#16

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

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#17

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#18

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#19

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

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#20

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

tags: feelings, persistence, problems

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#21

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

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#22

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: joy-of-reading

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#23

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#24

“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
― Beau Taplin

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#25

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality

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#26

“Ce monde n'est pas fait pour que vous vous en évadiez. Ce monde est fait pour tenir votre cœur captif le temps qu'il faut pour le broyer.”
― Benjamin Whitmer, Évasion

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#27

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

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#28

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

tags: love, pain, relationships, self

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#29

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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#30

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

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