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“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”
― John Keats

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

“I want a brighter word than bright”
― John Keats

“Love betters what is best”
― Wordsworth

“Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her.”
― William Wordsworth

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
― Marcel Proust

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
― Marcel Proust

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“Now are the woods all black,
But still the sky is blue.”
― Marcel Proust , Swann’s Way

“Love is a game in which one always cheats.”
― Honore de Balzac

“True love rules especially through memory.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Girl With The Golden Eyes

“Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“When you're dead, I think I will miss your problems.”
― Steve Roggenbuck

“i was ok in the sea
put me back”
― Steve Roggenbuck, Crunk Juice

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
― Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines

“Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.”
― Stephen Crane

“It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.”
― Fuyumi Ono, The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn

“Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom--so deep that not even light could touch it.

And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling.

Like stars...”
― Fuyumi Ono, The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?”
― Thomas Aquinas

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis