#Literary Quotations

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur"

~ Tomas Tranströmer, from "The Cuckoo"

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[justanotherliteraturestudent]

"I remained too stunned to think; and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces."

- Pip, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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[amicus-noctis]

“The sea: I didn’t lose myself in it; I found myself in it.” — Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1942-1951

Photo via @ivorygate

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[thecuddlycauldron]

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could. -LOUISE ERDRICH, The Painted Drum

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[musingsofacuriousmind]

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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[thinkingimages]

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[zurich-snows]

“Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.” — Anne Carson

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[slavnder]

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[ijustkindalikebooks]

“Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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[tbr-tales]

Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?

Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

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[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange, Sweet garden of a thousand years ago,"

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim"

via southerncrossreview.org

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[justanotherliteraturestudent]

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors."

— Pozzo, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

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[lilyhana]

I have never seen a soul as hardened as yours.

  Albert Camus, The Stranger

I read it gain recently. It haunts me.

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[thequietabsolute]

What I fear is that on Judgement Day one's punishment will be to hear God reciting by heart the poems I would have written had my life been good.

— W. H. Auden, via Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art

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[betterinthedarkblog]

“When we are all dead and gone and those who are born to replace us are dead and gone, time will inch forward and the music of the world will play on, even when there are no human ears to hear it.” — Gregory Maguire, THE WITCH OF MARACOOR

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[feralchaton]

"I got lost here before, so now I know where we are."

Walking One Step At A Time by Erling Kagge

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