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  • #1
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
    Rimbaud

  • #2
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #3
    T.S. Eliot
    “There will be time, there will be time
    To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
    T.S. Eliot.

  • #4
    Robert Lowell
    “The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”
    Robert Lowell

  • #5
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

  • #6
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
    Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

  • #7
    “I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.”
    Hugo Wolf

  • #8
    “The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds”
    Hugo Wolf

  • #9
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #17
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #21
    T.S. Eliot
    “Between the idea
    And the reality
    Between the motion
    And the act
    Falls the Shadow”
    T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

  • #22
    Virginia Woolf
    “He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: life

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #26
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #27
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

  • #28
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Invisible things are the only realities.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

  • #29
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #31
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”
    Edgar Allan Poe



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