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  • #1
    Munia Khan
    “You don’t need a sad soul
    to feel the beauty of a dead grave
    Just stay with the pale moon
    when darkness wants the night to be brave”
    Munia Khan

  • #2
    Santōka Taneda
    “edge of town
    all graveyard
    and the sound of waves”
    Santōka Taneda, For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with Excerpts from His Diary

  • #3
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #4
    Colette
    “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
    Colette

  • #5
    Colette
    “Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
    Colette

  • #6
    Colette
    “In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”
    Colette

  • #7
    Colette
    “If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.”
    Colette, Gigi and The Cat

  • #8
    Colette
    “People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.”
    Colette

  • #9
    Colette
    “... what an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment.”
    Colette, My Mother's House & Sido

  • #10
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #11
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #12
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #13
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
    Mary W. Shelley

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #19
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #20
    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #21
    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #22
    Paulo Coelho
    “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
    Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept



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