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  • #1
    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #2
    “Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
    John Russell

  • #3
    E.M. Forster
    “Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
    E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

  • #4
    Dodie Smith
    “I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #5
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #6
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #7
    Dodie Smith
    “Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #8
    Banana Yoshimoto
    “Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    Banana Yoshimoto

  • #9
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #10
    Joanne Harris
    “I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”
    Joanne Harris, Chocolat

  • #11
    Marcel Duchamp
    “I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    Marcel Duchamp

  • #12
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #13
    William Penn
    “In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
    William Penn

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #15
    Coco Chanel
    “In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Muriel Barbery
    “If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.”
    Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

  • #18
    Muriel Barbery
    “I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
    Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

  • #19
    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    John Lennon

  • #20
    Pablo Picasso
    “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #21
    Banana Yoshimoto
    “People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
    Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

  • #22
    Robert Girardi
    “His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act.”
    Robert Girardi, The Pirate's Daughter: A Novel

  • #23
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #24
    E.M. Forster
    “The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”
    E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

  • #25
    A.S. Byatt
    “My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.”
    A.S. Byatt, Possession

  • #26
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #27
    L.M. Montgomery
    “True friends are always together in spirit.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #28
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #29
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #30
    Virginia Woolf
    “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own



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