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#1

“To create one's own world takes courage.”
― georgia o'keeffe

#2

“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

51739 likes

#3

“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”
― Rousseau Jean-Jacques

tags: ego, emile, life, simplicity, vanity

220 likes

#5

“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve”
― Charles de Montesquieu

14 likes

#5

“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

tags: inspirational, wisdom

236 likes

#6

“Curiosity will not cause us to die, only lack of it will. For only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.”
― Allastair Reid

2 likes

#7

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: life

2678 likes

#8

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

tags: calming, reassuring, true

2344 likes

#9

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: obsession

1320 likes

#10

“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

637 likes

#11

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

371 likes

#12

“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Pargiters

435 likes

#13

“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries

tags: love

472 likes

#14

“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

tags: the-voyage-out, virginia-woolf

397 likes

#15

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: art

460 likes

#16

“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: aspirations, dreams, hopes, inspirational, life

269 likes

#17

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: courage, curiosity, hopefulness, motivational, perseverance, universe, wonder

751 likes

#18

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

466 likes

#19

“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

tags: curiosity

264 likes

#20

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

23167 likes

#21

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

5699 likes

#22

“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

416 likes

#23

“I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

94 likes

#24

“The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

29 likes

#25

“I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

57 likes

#26

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

4162 likes

#27

“Come quickly. You mustn’t miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

tags: beauty, dawn, magic, nature

14 likes

#28

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12775 likes

#29

“Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).”
― Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

tags: happiness, joy

7 likes

#30

“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: new-york-city

25 likes

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