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#1

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

#2

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88193 likes

#3

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

6693 likes

#4

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy

5692 likes

#5

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: fantasy

2025 likes

#6

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: fantasy, heaven

1693 likes

#7

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: greatness

15473 likes

#8

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

3019 likes

#9

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29745 likes

#10

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
― Charlotte Brontë

593 likes

#11

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12185 likes

#12

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9728 likes

#13

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

2274 likes

#14

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1575 likes

#15

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

10840 likes

#16

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: life, poetry

1777 likes

#17

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2366 likes

#18

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

2761 likes

#19

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

2416 likes

#21

“I will not let you go into the unknown alone.”
― Bram Stoker

242 likes

#22

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

286 likes

#23

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

453 likes

#24

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

101701 likes

#25

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

37361 likes

#26

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends

32102 likes

#27

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm

15185 likes

#28

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: paraphrased, shakespeare

652 likes

#29

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: silence, understand

1244 likes

#30

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: love, women, worship

1166 likes

#31

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

tags: inspirational, life

2113 likes

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