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  • #1
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

  • #3
    Toni Morrison
    “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #4
    Toni Morrison
    “Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #5
    Toni Morrison
    “Something that is loved is never lost.”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #6
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Words without experience are meaningless.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #8
    Virginia Woolf
    “I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #10
    Ayn Rand
    “I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #11
    Ayn Rand
    “To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #12
    Ayn Rand
    “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #13
    Toni Morrison
    “Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #14
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #15
    Henry David Thoreau
    “for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #16
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #17
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #18
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #22
    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #23
    Elie Wiesel
    “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #24
    Elie Wiesel
    “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
    elie wiesel

  • #25
    Elie Wiesel
    “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
    Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

  • #26
    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #28
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #29
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #30
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist



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