September 2011
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“We live the given life, and not the planned.”
– Wendell Berry, from “1994: III”, found in A Timbered Choir (via excessivebookshelf)
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via thequotecollector)
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“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day...”
– Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching...”
– Haruki Murakami (via heartmindspirit)
“When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in...”
– Eugene Ionesco, Fragments of a Journal (via sixstepsback)
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“The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new...”
– George Gissing (via libraryland)
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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
– Vincent van Gogh (via thequotecollector)
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“The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been...”
– Andrew Ross (via confessions-of-a-bookaholic)
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– ― Jonathan Safran Foer (via bookwormshaven)
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“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via thequotecollector)
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”My heart is so small it’s almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? “Look,” He answered, “your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.” -Rumi
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“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all...”
– Roald Dahl, Matilda (via prettybooks)
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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend...”
– Dale Carnegie (via seabois)
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