March 2012
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...”
– Oscar Wilde, A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated
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“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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February 2012
63 posts
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“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in...”
– Antonio Porchia, Voices
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“Once in a golden hour,
I cast to earth a seed,
And up there grew a flower,...”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Flower
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“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when...”
– Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He...”
– Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“At the temple there is a poem called “Loss” carved into the stone....”
– Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can...”
– James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going...”
– Charles Bukowski, The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may...”
– Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
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“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be...”
– Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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“Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and...”
– E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
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“Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline
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“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths...”
– Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be...”
– John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…And when I...”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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“Enough about my beauty.” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how...”
– William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
– Maya Angelou
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“I had no illusions about you,’ he said. ‘I knew you were silly and...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the...”
– Shana Abé, The Dream Thief
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“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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“It’s hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
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“Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage we did not take
Towards the door...”
– T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“At a single strain of music, the scent of a flower, or even one glimpse of a...”
– Myrtle Reed, Old Rose and Silver