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  • #1
    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    William Wordsworth

  • #2
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

  • #3
    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    C. J. Cherryh

  • #4
    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #5
    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    Tom Perrotta, Election

  • #6
    Ward Moore
    “Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
    Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

  • #7
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #8
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #9
    Charles Dickens
    “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #10
    Chang-rae Lee
    “It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
    Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

  • #11
    Ibn-e-Safi
    “Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
    Ibn-e-Safi

  • #12
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #13
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    J. D. Salinger

  • #14
    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  • #15
    Anne Bradstreet
    “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
    Anne Bradstreet

  • #16
    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #17
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #18
    Giacomo Leopardi
    “The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
    Giacomo Leopardi

  • #19
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #20
    Machado de Assis
    “To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

  • #21
    José Rizal
    “One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
    Jose Rizal

  • #22
    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    E.M. Forster

  • #23
    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #24
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #25
    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    Daniel Defoe

  • #26
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    H. P. Lovecraft

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #29
    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    Russell Banks, Continental Drift

  • #30
    Anne Frank
    “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



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