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#1

“An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

tags: outcomes

876 likes

#2

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: ink, invisible, pages, writing

756 likes

#3

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4267 likes

#4

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation

5273 likes

#5

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

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#6

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135498 likes

#8

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84856 likes

#9

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48261 likes

#10

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

7945 likes

#11

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

20232 likes

#12

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

5109 likes

#13

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

5354 likes

#14

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression-silence

5231 likes

#15

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

3423 likes

#16

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

33847 likes

#17

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: poetry

4337 likes

#18

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23582 likes

#19

“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception. ”
― Alfred de Musset

1158 likes

#20

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis

21130 likes

#21

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

39862 likes

#22

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

tags: books, library

29737 likes

#23

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: poetry

6199 likes

#24

“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1142 likes

#25

“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#26

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

441 likes

#27

“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

tags: compassion, meaning, meaninglessness

323 likes

#28

“ولعل البدايات ; كما كان أستاذي القديم سوريانوس يقول،ما هي الا محض أوهام نعتقدها.فالبداية والنهاية إنما تكونان فقط في الخط المستقيم زولا خطوط مستقيمة إلا في أوهامنا أو في الوريقات التي نسطر فيها ما نتوهمه.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

tags: inspirational

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#29

“كنت مسرعاً نحو غاية لا أعرفها، في لحظة ما أدركت أنني لا أعرفني! وأن ما مضى من عمري لم يعد موجوداً.كانت الأفكار والصور تمر علي خاطري ولا تثبت، تماما كما تمر قدماي على الأرض، فلا تقف. شعرت أن كل ما جرى معي، وكل ما بدا أمامي في أيامي وسنواتي الماضية، لا يخصني..أنا آخر، غير هذا الذي كان، ثم بان!”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

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#30

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: inspirational, soul, spiritual-growth

3299 likes

#31

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: trust

1026 likes

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