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#1

“The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.”
― J.M. Barrie

tags: adult, barrie, classics, fantasy, j-m, pan, peter, young

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#2

“Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: chinese-literature, classics, tao-te-ching

219 likes

#3

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― emily bronte

tags: classics, romance

188 likes

#4

“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.”
― China Miéville

tags: classics, genres, pulp

107 likes

#5

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

13887 likes

#6

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4776 likes

#7

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

4207 likes

#8

“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.”
― Kevin Alan Lee, The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View

tags: culture, government, health-care, health-care-system, humanism, medical, medicine, memoir, mental-illness, philosophy, political-science, politics, psychiatry, psychology, reference, schizophrenia, socialism, society, split-mind

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#9

“By masking my mental illness, I get along with almost everyone. Although the odd duck, I honor society’s rules. No one else could imagine my mind’s interior.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

tags: anxiety, depression, helping-yourself-mood-disorders, physical-health, reference, therapy

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#10

“Try not to drive yourself crazy attempting to be completely original. People need at least a portion of familiarity in order to relate.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

tags: familiar, familiarity, original, originality, reference, references, unique, uniqueness

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#11

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: books, fiction

2195 likes

#12

“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

tags: fiction

1507 likes

#13

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing

1486 likes

#14

“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science

1294 likes

#15

“Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.”
― Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet

tags: classic-literature, japanese-literature

267 likes

#16

“Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: classic-literature, inspiration, life, youth

38 likes

#17

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: classics, death, fate, greece, grief, wisdom

368 likes

#17

“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

tags: classics

388 likes

#18

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, fiction, on-fiction, tolkien, writing

1507 likes

#19

“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
― David Foster Wallace

tags: fiction, loneliness, on-fiction

1381 likes

#20

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: classic, drama, fiction, nick-carraway

1234 likes

#21

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

5043 likes

#22

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

3535 likes

#23

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

tags: freedom, inspirational, literature

2612 likes

#24

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

2594 likes

#25

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

2598 likes

#26

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

4280 likes

#27

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

tags: art

3377 likes

#28

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

3555 likes

#29

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

tags: art, calling, life

3815 likes

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