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#1

“This too shall pass.”
― Hakim Sanai

tags: endurance, proverbs

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#2

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

tags: enlightening

1595 likes

#3

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

4270 likes

#4

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
― Emily Dickinson

797 likes

#5

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books

1220 likes

#6

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71710 likes

#7

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

4683 likes

#8

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

18673 likes

#9

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

4562 likes

#10

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.”
― St. Augustine

10 likes

#11

“To make an individual uncomfortable, that is my task.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

13 likes

#12

“Borne by the trustless wings of false desire.”
― William Shakespeare

4 likes

#13

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

2611 likes

#14

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
― Socrates

499 likes

#15

“Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow

1563 likes

#16

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: adventure

5201 likes

#17

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51615 likes

#18

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23584 likes

#19

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4213 likes

#20

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

14532 likes

#21

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11156 likes

#22

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: melancholy

1324 likes

#23

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

5550 likes

#24

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

490 likes

#25

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: happiness

329 likes

#26

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: humor

1315 likes

#27

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

293 likes

#28

“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

314 likes

#29

“I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

55 likes

#30

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: affection, amity, love

4069 likes

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