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  • #1
    Victor Hugo
    “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #2
    Victor Hugo
    “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #3
    Victor Hugo
    “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #4
    Victor Hugo
    “Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #5
    Victor Hugo
    “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
    Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

  • #6
    Victor Hugo
    “The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #7
    Victor Hugo
    “Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #8
    Victor Hugo
    “The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #9
    Victor Hugo
    “To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #10
    Victor Hugo
    “What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “I think, therefore I doubt.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #15
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #18
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #20
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #21
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #22
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #23
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Human sympathy has its limits.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #24
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They were careless people ... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made . . . . ”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #25
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #26
    Ernest Hemingway
    “you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
    Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
    Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: love

  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises



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