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

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”
― Molière, Tartuffe

“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“A kite is a victim you are sure of.
You love it because it pulls
gentle enough to call you master,
strong enough to call you fool;
because it lives
like a desperate trained falcon
in the high sweet air,
and you can always haul it down
to tame it in your drawer.

A kite is a fish you have already caught
in a pool where no fish come,
so you play him carefully and long,
and hope he won't give up,
or the wind die down.

A kite is the last poem you've written
so you give it to the wind,
but you don't let it go
until someone finds you
something else to do.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth

“If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
― William S. Burroughs

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ... & No More Parades

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“What you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love. ”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
― Voltaire

“Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
― Voltaire