February 2012
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“There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is...”
– A. Dumbledore
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“Don’t you see? Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants...”
– Albus Dumbledore
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“Of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would make sure to find out my own jam...”
– A. Dumbledore
“In those days, I didn’t understand anything. I should have judged her according...”
– The Little Prince (via jieuniee)
“You are beautiful, but you are empty…One could not die for you. Of course, an...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (via literaturesluts)
“L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux”
– Le Petit Prince (via ockergelb)
“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an...”
– Jim Butcher, Storm Front (via atomology)
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“Mozart’s foster parents put cigarettes out in his ears
When he got old...”
– Conor Oberst
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“Inside the cage there is food.
Not much, but some.
Outside there are only vast...”
– Nicanor Parra
Professor McGonagall: Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?
Harry Potter: Yes.
Professor McGonagall: You called her a liar?
Harry Potter: Yes.
Professor McGonagall: You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?
Harry Potter: Yes.
Professor McGonagall: Have a biscuit, Potter.
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“It occurred to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, “Lolita” (via that-extra-half-inch)
“In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you—on my knees, with...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via spinals)
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
“There are two kinds of memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via pandygonewild)
“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a...”
– Humbert Humbert - Lolita
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“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“Death is a funny thing. Most people are afraid of it, and yet they don’t...”
– Joe Brainard
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“In the preface to an anthology of Russian literature, Vladimir Nabokov stated...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, in his Preface to Dostoevsky’s Demons as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Borges’s “A Personal Library” series; included in Jorge Luis Borges – Selected Non-Fictions (1999)
The Count of Monte Cristo
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“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
—Alexandre Dumas
The Critic as Artist
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
—Oscar Wilde
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou. (via literaryquotes)
“This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer. (via literaryquotes)
“Love almost replaces thought. Love is a burning forgetfulness of everything...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Miserables. (via literaryquotes)
Lady Windermere's Fan
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“There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” —Oscar Wilde
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it—basically because you...”
– from Tales of Ordinary Madness, by Charles Bukowski (via lqlqlq)
“But suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is...”
– Joseph Campbell
“Dijo Tennyson que si pudiéramos comprender una sola flor sabríamos quiénes somos...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, El Zahir (via fromtheinsight)