Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
– Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman’s Bargain (via librarianista)
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It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.
– Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape (via libraryland)
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Books are inexpensive valuable pieces of life, art, and adventure. One may look at a book and think, ‘This is simply paper held by cardboard and fancy binding and large lettering and a well-known publisher…’
But the readers know better. Who can deny someone their freedom to explore other worlds? No one, except those who rather sit in a 4 wall bedroom and watch the crickets play sad, sad songs.
– Harris M. Alfred (via v-eugene-hugo)
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
– Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost (via pinkcloudpaper)
The only people who see the whole picture,” he murmured, “are the ones who step out of the frame.
– Salman Rushdie (via amandaonwriting)
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
– Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry)
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When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and a writer’s, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death…..
– Anthony Doerr (via mythologyofblue)
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
– Thomas Merton (via katiekashmir)
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
– Niccolo Machiavelli (via nathanielstuart)
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