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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #2
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • #3
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #4
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #8
    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don’t do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #9
    Hayao Miyazaki
    “You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
    Hayao Miyazaki

  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #11
    Virginia Woolf
    “It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #14
    Books fall open, you fall in.
    “Books fall open, you fall in.”
    David T.W. McCord

  • #15
    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “What of Art?
    -It is a malady.
    --Love?
    -An Illusion.
    --Religion?
    -The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    --You are a sceptic.
    -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    --What are you?
    -To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #20
    Hayao Miyazaki
    “I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.”
    Hayao Miyazaki

  • #21
    Hayao Miyazaki
    “The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.”
    Hayao Miyazaki

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #24
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #26
    Hayao Miyazaki
    “Life is a winking light in the darkness.”
    Hayao Miyazaki
    tags: life

  • #27
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To travel is to live.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

  • #28
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #29
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #30
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore



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