December 2011
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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it...
– Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to....
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their...
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?...
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Whatever comes,” she said, “cannot alter one thing. If I am a...
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
Love and all the best.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it....
– L. M. Montgomery, The Story Girl
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The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But...
– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he...
– Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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Deep in the meadow, under the willow
A bed of grass, a soft green pillow
Lay...
– Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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What you have brought into the world may be utterly alien, it may share none of...
– Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
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I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my...
– W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
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It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with...
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world...
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and...
– Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
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Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than...
– Paulo Coelho, Brida
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Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate...
– Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand...
– Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to...
– Voltaire, Candide
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that...
– Hermann Hesse, Demian
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We all have our time machines.Those that take us back are memories…And...
– H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world....
– Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it...
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who...
– Sophocles, Antigone
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What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals,...
– Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers...
– Lewis Carroll, Life is but a Dream
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It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the...
– Baroness Emma Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
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There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing...
– G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have...
– Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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But I’m glad you’ll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn’t want...
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will...
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin