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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“A life without books is a life not lived.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“En toda mi vida, muchas veces he deseado ser asesinado, aunque ni una sola he pensado en quitar la vida a nadie. Será porque, al contrario, deseo hacer felices a las demás personas.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus