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Literary Quotes
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The sun did not rise, it overflowed. ~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! ~ Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Scattered wits take a long time picking up. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
"It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop." ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot
"It hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible." ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. ~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. ~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster
"The proper study of mankind is books." ~ Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion. ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert
"I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination." ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Impropriety is the soul of wit. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
"Life isn't long enough for love and art." ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heaven. ~ Paradise Lost by John Milton
For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. ~ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
A dream itself is but a shadow. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, As self-neglecting." ~ Henry V by William Shakespeare
"We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." ~ The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose. ~ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The sun did not rise, it overflowed. ~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! ~ Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Scattered wits take a long time picking up. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
"It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop." ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot
"It hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible." ~ Amelia by Henry Fielding
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. ~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. ~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster
"The proper study of mankind is books." ~ Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion. ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert
"I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination." ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Impropriety is the soul of wit. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
"Life isn't long enough for love and art." ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heaven. ~ Paradise Lost by John Milton
For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. ~ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
A dream itself is but a shadow. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, As self-neglecting." ~ Henry V by William Shakespeare
"We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." ~ The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose. ~ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Ursula K. LeGuin THE DISPOSSESSED
"He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands: as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments separate like dividing soap bubbles. he got up and scribbled down, without really waking, the mathematical formula that had been eluding him for days. He saw space shrink in upon him like the walls of a collapsing sphere driving in and in towards a central void, closing, closing..."
"The reality is pain--you said that! But it's the ies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It's the lies that make you want to kill yourself."
"...unless the past and the future were made part of the present by memory and intention, there was, in human terms, no road, nowhere to go..."
"we think that time 'passes,' flows past us, but what if it is we who move..."
"It is only in consciousness, it seems, that we experience time at all."
"In a dream there is no time, and succession is all changed about, and cause and effect are all mixed together. In myth and legend there is no time. What past is it the tale means when it says "Once upon a time'? And so, when the mystic makes the re-connection of his reason and his unconscious, he sees all becoming as one being, and understands the eternal return."
"Where is beginning or end? Infinite repetition is an atemporal process."
"...time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises."
"Can one dismiss either being, or becoming, as an illusion?"
"it is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question..."
"You can only be the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution."
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners."
"The reality is pain--you said that! But it's the ies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It's the lies that make you want to kill yourself."
"...unless the past and the future were made part of the present by memory and intention, there was, in human terms, no road, nowhere to go..."
"we think that time 'passes,' flows past us, but what if it is we who move..."
"It is only in consciousness, it seems, that we experience time at all."
"In a dream there is no time, and succession is all changed about, and cause and effect are all mixed together. In myth and legend there is no time. What past is it the tale means when it says "Once upon a time'? And so, when the mystic makes the re-connection of his reason and his unconscious, he sees all becoming as one being, and understands the eternal return."
"Where is beginning or end? Infinite repetition is an atemporal process."
"...time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises."
"Can one dismiss either being, or becoming, as an illusion?"
"it is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question..."
"You can only be the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution."
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners."
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