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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Neil Gaiman
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Agnes Repplier
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Lemony Snicket
I remember reading this for the first time the day before my grandfather passed. It’s something he would’ve said had he had the chance.
Always.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe, on the Occupy Wall Street movement.
So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.
John Keating, Dead Poets Society
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
Bram Stoker, Dracula
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