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#1

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

#2

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

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#3

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

tags: egg, food

938 likes

#4

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93311 likes

#5

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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#6

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

1207 likes

#7

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

5285 likes

#8

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman

tags: anarchy, music, revolution

1307 likes

#9

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

2503 likes

#10

“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
― Paula Danziger

963 likes

#11

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

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#12

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

2533 likes

#13

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

5887 likes

#14

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

2961 likes

#15

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

tags: creepy, woman

894 likes

#17

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

1415 likes

#18

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

1287 likes

#19

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

14694 likes

#20

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135109 likes

#21

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

1301 likes

#22

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

1025 likes

#23

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

1479 likes

#24

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

8696 likes

#25

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

2251 likes

#26

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

4618 likes

#27

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4493 likes

#28

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books

2761 likes

#29

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

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#30

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational

1810 likes

#31

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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