October 2011
38 posts
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“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and...”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“Nothing is real except the present, and already I feel the weight of centuries...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
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“You might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long...”
– John Ruskin
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“It is interesting to imagine what our vision of the world would be like had...”
– Doris Lessing
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“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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“I’ll tell you what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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“The vast empty spaces of the page appal, and everyone walks into the maze...”
– Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead
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“In my new black leather phone book there’s your name
and the disconnected...”
– Tony Harrison, Long Distance II
“I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”
– Albert Camus (via clavicola)
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“This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things...”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“I sit in the library tonight, the lights glaring overhead, the fan whirring...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has...”
– Maya Angelou (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“If we can say, ‘No human behaviour is alien to me’, then it is because we...”
– Doris Lessing
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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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“I do not know. This story I am telling is all imagination. These characters I...”
– John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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“Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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“I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will...”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are...”
– Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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“And was the day of my delight
As pure and perfect as I say?”
– Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
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“I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost… but won’t....”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
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“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”
– Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life (via estincelle)
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“(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me...”
– e. e. cummings, Somewhere I have traveled, gladly beyond
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“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
– Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
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“He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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“Literature makes us all kin, because every tale is a report from people whose...”
– Doris Lessing
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“What would that be like – to long, to yearn for one who is right there before...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn’t keep growing inside my...”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley (via perdure)
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“each day demands we create our whole world over.
disguising the constant horror...”
– Sylvia Plath, Tale of a Tub (via justanotherquoteblog)
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“In everyday life, talking about imaginary people as though they were real is...”
– Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem
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“There was something very comforting in having plenty of stationary.”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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“There was a scent of dust in the air; a thin vestige surviving in the...”
– Evelyn Waugh
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“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories...”
– David Nicholls, One Day 