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“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson