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#1

“You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

#2

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

tags: books, literature, reading, words

1639 likes

#3

“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

67 likes

#4

“There’s more power and magic in those things in there than in all the rest of the world put together”
― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

4 likes

#5

“My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.”
― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

120 likes

#6

“It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.”
― Roald Dahl, The Witches

tags: impossible, magic, nothing-is-impossible

41 likes

#7

“let your love out”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: realistic

28 likes

#8

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

341 likes

#9

“Please don’t, above all,
plant me in your heart.

I grow too quick.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

25 likes

#10

“And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

tags: life, mindfulness, poetry, transcendence

18 likes

#11

“The trees which you planted as a child
Have long since grown too heavy; you do not deceive them.
But the winds ... but the spaces ...
Raise no monument. For it is the roses
Which salute Him year by year with their petals.
This, you see, is Orpheus”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

tags: growth, orpheus, tragic

5 likes

#12

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

864 likes

#13

“Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: 329, raskolnikov, sonia, suffering

321 likes

#14

“Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

263 likes

#15

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: self-realization

2202 likes

#16

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

4149 likes

#17

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: adoration, fidelity, love

1907 likes

#18

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: eyes, interpretation, mind, soul

1292 likes

#19

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

13059 likes

#20

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

7822 likes

#21

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: heart, heartbroken

2560 likes

#22

“She burned too bright for this world.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

tags: life

2179 likes

#23

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
― Euripides, Medea

tags: hate, tragedy

307 likes

#24

“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”
― Euripides, Medea

66 likes

#25

“It's human; we all put self interest first.”
― Euripides, Medea

tags: greek-tragedy, play, tutor

63 likes

#26

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

3568 likes

#27

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

374 likes

#28

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: people

44 likes

#29

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share

5757 likes

#30

“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

622 likes

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