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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

  • #4
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

  • #5
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    Betty Friedan

  • #6
    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    Dave Eggers

  • #7
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #8
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #9
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #10
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #11
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #12
    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    Edward Albee

  • #13
    Sylvia Townsend Warner
    “It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
    Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

  • #14
    Vita Sackville-West
    “Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
    Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

  • #15
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #16
    Horton Foote
    “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
    Horton Foote

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #18
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #19
    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #20
    Ved Mehta
    “Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
    Ved Mehta, All for Love

  • #21
    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    Louis Adamic

  • #22
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “I am awaiting
    perpetually and forever
    a renaissance of wonder”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • #23
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #24
    Bohumil Hrabal
    “I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
    Bohumil Hrabal

  • #25
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    Kobayashi Issa, Poems

  • #26
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #27
    Edmond Rostand
    “A great nose may be an index
    Of a great soul”
    Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

  • #28
    Marguerite Duras
    “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
    Marguerite Duras

  • #29
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #30
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald



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