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  • #1
    William Shakespeare
    “Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #2
    Naomi Alderman
    “It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.”
    Naomi Alderman, The Power

  • #3
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #4
    Ray Bradbury
    “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #5
    Paula Hawkins
    “I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
    Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

  • #6
    Tennessee Williams
    “I don't want realism. I want magic!”
    Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

  • #8
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #9
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • #10
    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #11
    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #12
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Make me immortal with a kiss.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

  • #13
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
    Christopher Marlowe

  • #14
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Hell is just a frame of mind.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

  • #15
    Christopher Marlowe
    “He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

  • #16
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

  • #17
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
    Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
    And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
    Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
    In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
    Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

  • #18
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
    Christopher Marlowe

  • #19
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
    Christopher Marlowe

  • #20
    Christopher Marlowe
    “All live to die, and rise to fall.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

  • #21
    Christopher Marlowe
    “If we say that we have no sin,
    We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
    Why then belike we must sin,
    And so consequently die.
    Ay, we must die an everlasting death.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

  • #22
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
    Christopher Marlowe



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