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  • #1
    Herman Melville
    “As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #2
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #3
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #4
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
    "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #5
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #6
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #8
    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #9
    Emily Brontë
    “I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #10
    John Steinbeck
    “To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #11
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados.”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #12
    Kenneth Grahame
    “The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.”
    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • #13
    Kenneth Grahame
    “He saw clearly how plain and simple - how narrow, even - it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.”
    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • #14
    Aldous Huxley
    “Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #15
    John Steinbeck
    “Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #16
    Kenneth Grahame
    “Today, to him gazing south with a new-born need stirring in his heart, the clear sky over their long low outline seemed to pulsate with promise; today, the unseen was everything. the unknown the only real fact of life.”
    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • #17
    Charles Dickens
    “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #18
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo".”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad

  • #19
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Sin embargo, antes de llegar al verso final ya había comprendido que no saldría jamás de ese cuarto, pues estaba previsto que la ciudad de los espejos ( o los espejismos) sería arrasada por el viento y desterrada de la memoria de los hombres en el instante en que Aureliano Babilonio acabara de descifrar los pergaminos, y que todo lo escrito en ellos era irrepetible desde siempre y para siempre, porque las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tenian una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • #20
    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #22
    J.D. Salinger
    “If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #23
    J.D. Salinger
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #24
    Harper Lee
    “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #25
    John Steinbeck
    “Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #26
    Thomas Hardy
    “It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity”
    Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

  • #27
    Margaret Mitchell
    “After all, tomorrow is another day!”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: love

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

    All art is quite useless.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Science is magic that works.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle



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