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#1

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

#2

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#3

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

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#4

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion

1958 likes

#5

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#6

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

tags: cruelty, evil, humanity, kindness

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#7

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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#8

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide

2228 likes

#9

“To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels

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#10

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: beauty, control, diet, fad, feminism, feminist, food, myth, obedience

556 likes

#11

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

tags: cats

1675 likes

#12

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

tags: creepy, woman

895 likes

#13

“Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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#14

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4783 likes

#15

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

3414 likes

#16

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

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#17

“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

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