"The sight of an old man clinging to life with so desperate a courage, gave a fresh turn to his ideas, and inspired him with new courage." – Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo #botd #books #literature #alexandredumas

"To use the majesty of law for revenging any petty act of private spite is to make a public confession of weakness, cowardice and an ignoble spirit." – Robert Graves, I, Claudius #botd #books #literature

"Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean." – Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye #botd #books #literature #crimefiction

"Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need." – Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues #botd #books #literature

"Yes, life could at times be so brutal that the only things that made it livable were dreams." – Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood #botd #books #literature

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"If there be sorrow let it be for things undone undreamed unrealized unattained to these add one: Love withheld ... restrained” – Mari Evans, b. July 16, 1919 #books #literature #poetry

"Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration." – Iris Murdoch #botd #books #literature

"It was the month of July and the streets of Turin were hot and deserted, the asphalt was melting and stuck to your shoes, Anna walked along very slowly on this burning asphalt with a bag of cherries and ate them as she looked into the shop windows." – Natalia Ginzburg #botd #books #literature

“A well-informed mind...is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice...Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within." – Ann Radcliffe #botd #books

"She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom!" – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter #botd #books #literature

"There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern." – Charlotte Perkins Gilman #botd

"I wanted only to try to live in obedience to the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?" – Herman Hesse, Demian #botd #books #literature

"Amid these landscapes traipses the soul, Disappears, comes back, draws nearer, moves away, Alien to itself, elusive At times certain, at others uncertain of its own existence, While the body is and is and is And has no place of its own.” – Wisława Szymborska #botd #books #poetry #literature

"Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise." – Strunk and White, The Elements of Style William Strunk, Jr. #botd author of The Elements of Style, which was later revised by his former student E. B. White. The book remains a valuable rule book of English rhetoric. #books #rhetoric #writing

"And so it befell me that after so many attempts at naming the world, I am able only to repeat, harping on one string, the highest, the unique avowal beyond which no power can attain: I am, she is." – Czesław Miłosz, "Esse" #botd #books #poetry

"It was a dark, ruddy dawn, and through a small square hole of a window, where the tattered paper fluttered, a glimpse of bronze sky gleamed. He went to the hole and tore the paper away." – Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth #botd #books #literature

"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn." – Anna Akhmatova, "Lot's Wife" #botd #poetry #literature #books

"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change." – Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower #botd #books #literature

"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences." – Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth #books #history #juneteenth

"Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, And blackening clouds about me cling; But, oh, I have a magic way To turn the gloom to cheerful day— I softly sing." – James Weldon Johnson #books #literature #poetry

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"To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others." – Giovanni Boccaccio #botd #books #literature

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank #botd #books #literature

"Any kind of inhumanity, given practice, becomes human. All the varieties of transgression are buried in the darkness of the world." – Yasunari Kawabata #botd #literature #books #stories

“Thoughts should be real. Words should have a definite meanings and a man should believe what he said.” – Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift #botd #books #literature #saulbellow

"Do not carry your remembrance. Leave it, alone, in my breast, tremor of a white cherry tree in the torment of January." – Federico García Lorca #botd #books #poetry #literature

"I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry." – Allen Ginsberg #botd #books #literature #poetry

"If I act, I cannot but lose. But if I do not act, it is a different kind of defeat, equally decisive and maybe worse. Because then I will not even have a conscience left." – André Brink #botd #books #literature #novels

“For the first time Benny realized properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city. Best friends from the age of ten, now they would go down different roads.” – Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends #botd #books #literature #novels