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#1

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18124 likes

#2

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

3438 likes

#3

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

959 likes

#4

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

tags: age-adult

2582 likes

#5

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

tags: love

461 likes

#6

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

7130 likes

#7

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

131 likes

#8

“It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

tags: home

224 likes

#9

“This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

351 likes

#10

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

5691 likes

#11

“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

tags: 238, cities

77 likes

#12

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

399 likes

#13

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

417 likes

#14

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
― Cesare Pavese

tags: travel

350 likes

#15

“Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head."
But I am in my head, Sam thought.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

361 likes

#16

“If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: perfection

324 likes

#17

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression-silence

5230 likes

#18

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8661 likes

#19

“It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You’re so innocent in the beginning; you don’t know.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

59 likes

#20

“Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.”
― Marina Abramović

93 likes

#21

“Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”
― Marina Abramović

tags: marina-abramovic

57 likes

#22

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary

1364 likes

#23

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

tags: dream, dreamer, fyodor-dostoyevsky, memories, white-nights

934 likes

#24

“I was so scared of being hurt that I'd done nothing. I was so scared of failing, of being hurt, that I choose nothing. I did nothing.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

120 likes

#25

“When I start to feel emotional about something, I can't tell if I'm actually feeling that way. What if it's just something somebody wrote in a book? Or maybe a line or a performance from some movie... Either way, I get this feeling like I'm quoting somebody else's work.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

99 likes

#26

“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

tags: philosophy, truth

167 likes

#27

“When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

tags: rebellion

110 likes

#28

“Never trust a survivor,” my father used to warn me, with Vartan Mamigonian in mind, “until you find out what he did to stay alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

49 likes

#29

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

tags: feminism, male-violence, radical-feminism, women

388 likes

#30

“Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.”
― Andrea Dworkin

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