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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #5
    Terence
    “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
    I am human, and think nothing human alien to me.”
    Terence

  • #6
    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    E.M. Forster

  • #7
    E.M. Forster
    “You confuse what's important with what's impressive.”
    E.M. Forster, Maurice

  • #8
    E.M. Forster
    “After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
    E.M. Forster, Maurice

  • #9
    E.M. Forster
    “Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”
    E.M. Forster, Maurice

  • #10
    Peter Jackson
    “I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
    Peter Jackson

  • #11
    E.M. Forster
    “When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”
    E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

  • #12
    E.M. Forster
    “Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
    E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

  • #13
    E.M. Forster
    “Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
    E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

  • #14
    E.M. Forster
    “Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
    E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

  • #15
    E.M. Forster
    “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
    E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

  • #19
    Richard Osman
    “In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you. So I’m putting today in my pocket and I’m off to bed.”
    Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

  • #20
    “You should not
    have to rip yourself
    into pieces to keep
    others whole.”
    Emma Bleker

  • #21
    Alistair MacLeod
    “All of us are better when we're loved.”
    Alistair MacLeod

  • #22
    Alistair MacLeod
    “Music is the lubricant of the poor.”
    Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod

  • #23
    Alistair MacLeod
    “The “lamp of the poor” is hardly visible in urban southwestern Ontario, although there are many poor who move disjointedly beneath it. And the stars are seldom clearly seen above the pollution of prosperity.”
    Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod
    tags: moon

  • #24
    “In the frantaic world of today, with everything in a ceaseless uproar like a forest in a hurricane, it's a good thing to see that your roots go a long way down.”
    Thomas H. Raddall, In My Time: A Memoir



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