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  • #1
    Sappho
    “Someone, I tell you, in another time,
    will remember us.”
    Sappho

  • #2
    Samantha Shannon
    “Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done.”
    Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

  • #3
    Samantha Shannon
    “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

  • #4
    Samantha Shannon
    “When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.”
    Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

  • #5
    Samantha Shannon
    “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

  • #6
    Samantha Shannon
    “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

  • #7
    Samantha Shannon
    “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

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: age

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #14
    Vincent van Gogh
    “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

  • #15
    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #16
    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #17
    Vincent van Gogh
    “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

  • #18
    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #19
    Vincent van Gogh
    “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

  • #20
    Costanza Casati
    “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

  • #21
    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #22
    Madeline Miller
    “He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #23
    Madeline Miller
    “I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe

  • #24
    Madeline Miller
    “I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
    Madeline Miller, Circe



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