“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Julian
― Julian
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