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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
― William Faulkner

“I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.”
― William Faulkner

“Caddy smelled like trees.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“O que não sei dizer é mais importante do que o que eu digo.”
― Clarice Lispector

“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela