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#1

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

1925 likes

#2

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

4858 likes

#3

“You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

711 likes

#4

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

tags: change, initiative, time

2918 likes

#5

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: love

897 likes

#6

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

4033 likes

#7

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16171 likes

#8

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

2112 likes

#9

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130256 likes

#10

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

4389 likes

#11

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

932 likes

#12

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20676 likes

#13

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16255 likes

#14

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

3019 likes

#15

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

tags: life, people, viewpoint

1811 likes

#16

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

1298 likes

#17

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21841 likes

#18

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

1284 likes

#19

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

1276 likes

#20

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

2484 likes

#21

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

1413 likes

#22

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

1879 likes

#23

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

8612 likes

#24

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

2729 likes

#25

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: heaven, hell, paradise

1204 likes

#26

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

1958 likes

#27

“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”
― W.D. Snodgrass

819 likes

#28

“I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.”
― Azra T.

tags: longing, love

115 likes

#29

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: ideas

2080 likes

#30

“She believed she could, so she did.”
― R.S. Grey, Scoring Wilder

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