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"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."
Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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#jane austen
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#wit
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"Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward."
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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#literature
#quote
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"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
#kerouac
#on the road
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#literature
"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."
Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
#Shakespeare
#Much Ado About Nothing
#literature
#quote
"I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate."
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
#Markus Zusak
#The Book Thief
#literature
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"Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It’s just that most people’s time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines."
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
#time
#time travel
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#quote
#literature
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
From Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#literature
#tennyson
#poetry
#ulysses
From "Much Ado About Nothing"
| Leonato: | Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. |
| Beatrice: | Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. |
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“Dear, dear Norland,” said Elinor, “probably looks much as it always does at this time of year. The woods and walks thickly covered with dead leaves.”
“Oh!” cried Marianne, “with what transporting sensations have I formerly seen them fall! How have I delighted, as I walked, to see them driven in showers about me by the wind! What feelings have they, the season, the air altogether inspired! Now there is no one to regard them. They are seen only as a nuisance, swept hastily off, and driven as much as possible from the sight.”
“It is not every one,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”
"Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
#awesomness
#dead leaves
#jane austen
#quotes
#sense and sensibility
#Literature
"Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
#Slaughterhouse Five
#kurt vonnegut
#why
#Literature
"Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both."
Patrick Ness, A Monster Comes to Call
#a monster comes to call
#lies
#truth
#Literature
"How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
#kurt vonnegut
#quotes
#slaughterhouse five
#Literature
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."
Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
#elizabeth bennet
#jane austen
#pride and prejudice
#wit
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