June 2011
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“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via makelovetothemoon)
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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its...”
– Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (via makelovetothemoon)
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“Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat....”
– Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
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“I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via date)
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via enchants)
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“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was...”
– Ian McEwan (via aeloquence)
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“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed...”
– Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (via lifeofliterature)
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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist 