“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself, through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and snuffles, romance only sighs.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“The effort for self-preservation is the first and only foundation of virtue.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

― George Washington, State of the Union Address

“He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Tragedy . . . belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of imagination.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“books are dead men talking. ”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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