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“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

“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

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

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

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori