litandlifequotes

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I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you. You are my sympathy – my better self – my good angel – I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you – and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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I sip my wine. After several generous gulps, I’m feeling the magic on the back of my neck, down my spine. There is again space in my lungs for breath.

When We Believed In Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal

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He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

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The memories come back in a scale of colors. Before they were merely just black-and-white. They now coalesce into a prism of clarity – a light that reflects the shadows that have always been there.

Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

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The cruel memory is not itself contemporary with the restored picture, it is of another age, it is one of the rare witnesses to a monstrous past.

Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

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Someone once said that his favourite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant something new was being born. Does this make any sense if we apply it to our individual lives? To die when something new is being born – even if that something new is our very own self? Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappointments, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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In between passion and lust (which were quite nice) Redraw the edge of things; Since our reality Is no longer theirs, We must establish Our own.

"What Lesbians Do In Bed" by Susan Matasovska

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Bear and endure: this sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

― Ovid

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I saw clearly that so long as I was still a human being and not nothingness, I was alive and so could suffer, be angry and feel shame at my actions.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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They dreamt not of a perishable home.

"In King's College Chapel" by William Wordsworth

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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

― Paul Valéry

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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman

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