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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

  • #4
    Robert Frost
    “Ah, when to the heart of man
    Was it ever less than a treason
    To go with the drift of things,
    To yield with a grace to reason,
    And bow and accept the end
    Of a love or a season?”
    Robert Frost

  • #5
    John Keats
    “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
    John Keats, Letters of John Keats

  • #6
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

  • #7
    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met -
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.
    If I should meet thee
    After long years,
    How should I greet thee? -
    With silence and tears”
    Lord Byron

  • #8
    Cecil Beaton
    “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
    Cecil Beaton

  • #9
    Stephen Fry
    “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

    Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #10
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #11
    Bram Stoker
    “I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.”
    Bram Stoker, The New Annotated Dracula

  • #12
    Henry James
    “You think too much.'

    'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.”
    Henry James, Washington Square

  • #13
    Andrew Marvell
    “Thus, though we cannot make our sun
    Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
    Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
    Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
    Must give us pause: there's the respect
    That makes calamity of so long life;”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
    Oscar Wilde, Salomé

  • #16
    Aldous Huxley
    “But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.”
    Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #19
    W.H. Auden
    “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
    W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

  • #20
    W.H. Auden
    “You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #21
    W.H. Auden
    “The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #22
    W.H. Auden
    “Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #23
    Daniel Defoe
    “I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.”
    Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

  • #24
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #27
    William Shakespeare
    “Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #28
    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

  • #29
    T.S. Eliot
    “Between the idea
    And the reality
    Between the motion
    And the act
    Falls the Shadow”
    T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

  • #30
    Evelyn Waugh
    “If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited



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