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“Living is a horizontal fall.”
― Jean Cocteau, Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

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

“Never say more than is necessary.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

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

“Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche