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“Victor: What does it feel like to be in love?

Creature: It feels like everything is boiling over and spilling out of me; it feels like my lungs are on fire, and my heart is a hammer, and I feel like I can do anything...I feel like I can do anything in the world...”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.”
― John Logan, Peter and Alice

“Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.”
― John Logan, Red

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

“Ogni anno l’autunno gli porta di questi sentimenti. Bisogno di silenzi, di solitudine, di ricordi. Bisogno di dormire. Di ricapitolarsi. Bisogno d’interiorità. La terra lo chiama a sé e lo invita a raccogliersi.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

“Before Turner there was no fog in London.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Se vuoi salvarti, leggi. E se tu volessi, addirittura, salvare qualcuno, scrivi.”
― Leo Ortolani

“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.”
― Karl Pilkington