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#1

“Someone, I tell you, in another time,
will remember us.”
― Sappho

#2

“Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

113 likes

#3

“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: kitston-glade, the-priory-of-the-orange-tree

133 likes

#4

“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: history

159 likes

#5

“Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it--the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: art, creation

70 likes

#6

“That one day, you will forgive yourself. You are in the spring of your life, child, and have much to learn about this world. Do not deny yourself the privilege of living.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: forgiveness

43 likes

#7

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

tags: life

384 likes

#8

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84856 likes

#9

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177064 likes

#10

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14711 likes

#11

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

8925 likes

#12

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

8463 likes

#13

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

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6026 likes

#14

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, inspiration, love, strength

5684 likes

#15

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide

3123 likes

#16

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, love

2273 likes

#17

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: painting, self-doubt

1536 likes

#18

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

946 likes

#19

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

tags: heart, love, man, sea, soul, storms

788 likes

#20

“But maybe this is how broken people keep living. They find someone as broken, fit them into the empty spaces of their hearts and, together, grow into something different.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

37 likes

#21

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

3985 likes

#22

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

2037 likes

#23

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

1429 likes

#24

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

950 likes

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