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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright, like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful of her purity, was laid out in fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

  • #2
    Emily Brontë
    “The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them”
    Emily Brontë

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #4
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #5
    John Steinbeck
    “There's more beauty in the truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #7
    Betty  Smith
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #8
    Richard Wright
    “Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”
    Richard Wright, Native Son

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #10
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #11
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

  • #12
    Lao Tzu
    “The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
    Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

  • #13
    Lao Tzu
    “The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #14
    Lao Tzu
    “The further one goes, the less one knows.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #16
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #17
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #18
    Clarice Lispector
    “Where does music go when it’s not playing?—she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.”
    Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
    tags: music

  • #19
    James Baldwin
    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
    James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

  • #20
    James Baldwin
    “You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
    James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: home

  • #21
    James Baldwin
    “I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”
    James Baldwin , Giovanni’s Room

  • #22
    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #23
    Paulo Coelho
    “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist



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