“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that...”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart–and I have all of those things–aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

― Confucius, Analects

“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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