“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Build therefore your own world.”
― Nature
― Nature
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
The Stranded Book Club
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