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    Oscar Wilde
    “All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #3
    Roald Dahl
    “Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
    Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
    Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
    Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • #4
    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
    Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

  • #5
    Sherman Alexie
    “There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  • #6
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh

  • #12
    Margaret Atwood
    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
    We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #13
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #14
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #15
    Benjamin Hoff
    “You can't save time. You can only spend it, but you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”
    Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

  • #16
    Benjamin Hoff
    “Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”
    Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

  • #17
    A.A. Milne
    “Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #18
    Benjamin Hoff
    “I think, therefore I am... confused.”
    Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

  • #19
    Sherman Alexie
    “We're all travelling heavy with illusions.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  • #20
    Sherman Alexie
    “But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  • #21
    Sherman Alexie
    “The ordinary can be like medicine.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
    tags: truth

  • #22
    Sherman Alexie
    “And I laughed because half of me was happy and half of me wasn't sure what else to do.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  • #23
    Sherman Alexie
    “I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  • #24
    Sherman Alexie
    “cry huge, gasping tears.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “All art is quite useless.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art

  • #28
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #29
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #30
    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World



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