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  • #1
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #2
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #6
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #7
    Ian McEwan
    “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #8
    Ian McEwan
    “A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #9
    Maya Angelou
    “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #10
    Robert Frost
    “The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    Robert Frost

  • #11
    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #12
    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #13
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #14
    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    Truman Capote

  • #15
    Truman Capote
    “It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #16
    Truman Capote
    “You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
    Truman Capote

  • #17
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
    Bertold Brecht

  • #18
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Não se dirá: Quando a nogueira balançou no vento

    Mas sim: Quando o pintor de paredes esmagou os trabalhadores.

    Não se dirá: Quando o menino fez deslizar a pedra lisa pela superfície da correnteza

    Mas sim: Quando prepararam as grandes guerras.

    Não se dirá: Quando a mulher foi para o quarto

    Mas sim: Quando os grandes poderes se uniram contras os trabalhadores.

    Não se dirá: Os tempos eram negros

    E sim: Por que seus poetas silenciaram?”
    Bertold Brecht

  • #19
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #21
    Sappho
    “]Sardis
    often turning her thoughts here

    ]
    you like a goddess
    and in your song most of all she rejoiced.

    But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women
    as sometimes at sunset
    the rosyfingered moon

    surpasses all the stars. And her light
    stretches over salt sea
    equally and flowerdeep fields.

    And the beautiful dew is poured out
    and roses bloom and frail
    chervil and flowering sweetclover.

    But she goes back and forth remembering
    gentle Atthis and in longing
    she bites her tender mind”
    Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

  • #22
    “When it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark look for stars.”
    Anonymous

  • #23
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #24
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #26
    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    Herman Hesse

  • #27
    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #28
    “i don't pay attention to the
    world ending.
    it has ended for me
    many times
    and began again in the morning.”
    Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

  • #29
    Lauren Oliver
    “Nobody ever said life was fair.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #30
    Fernando Pessoa
    “All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching.
    I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”
    Fernando Pessoa

  • #31
    Philip Roth
    “He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again. It is artificial and, even then, bought at the price of an obstinate estrangement from oneself and one's history.”
    Philip Roth, American Pastoral



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