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  • #1
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Night Ocean et autres nouvelles

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #3
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form.”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #4
    Virginia Woolf
    “The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #5
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #6
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Every moment of the night
    Forever changing places
    And they put out the star-light
    With the breath from their pale faces”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #9
    Anne Brontë
    “I love the silent hour of night,
    For blissful dreams may then arise,
    Revealing to my charmed sight
    What may not bless my waking eyes.”
    Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters

  • #10
    John Keats
    “The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
    John Keats

  • #11
    Charles Dickens
    “I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #12
    Charles Dickens
    “Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”
    Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

  • #13
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

  • #14
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
    Albert Camus

  • #16
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    James Joyce

  • #17
    James Joyce
    “I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
    adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”
    James Joyce, Dubliners

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Thomas Hardy
    “Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?”
    Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

  • #21
    Thomas Hardy
    “To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
    Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

  • #22
    Thomas Hardy
    “My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.”
    Thomas Hardy

  • #23
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #24
    Carson McCullers
    “In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
    Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

  • #25
    Carson McCullers
    “We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    Carson McCullers

  • #26
    Carson McCullers
    “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    Carson McCullers

  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Roads go ever ever on
    Under cloud and under star,
    Yet feet that wandering have gone
    Turn at last to home afar”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #28
    Thomas Hardy
    “Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.”
    Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring



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