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“I don’t need money, or, better, it’s not money that I need; it’s not even power;...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent (via ryannapier)
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“We are so divorced from it [life] that we feel at once a sort of loathing for...”
– Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground  (via nymphora)
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“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass...”
– Eleonora Duse (via agoodthinghappened)
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“What makes the desert beautiful … is that somewhere it hides a well.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via nathanielstuart)
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“You know you’ll end up like the rest bitter and twisted unless you stay strong...”
– Yann Tiersen, Le jours tristes (via clairefisher)
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“I went out into the gentle rain & saw the rainbow. It deepens, it shone down...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via katherine-mansfield)
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“Reading great books and reading them well is what is important. Meditative...”
– John Piper, on the sanctifying power of books (via Desiring God)
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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his...”
– James Oppenheim (via quote-book)
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coccorosa asked:Was just looking through your blog and saw you comment about finding an english version of harry potter. Because im in Australia that is all I see. I always see pictures of the other countries versions, like in the photo I saw your comment on. —- I am not sure which version the photo is from. The cover of the original book I could find was this:...
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“In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental...”
– Stephane Mallarme
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“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...”
– George Sand (via kari-shma)
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“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I...”
– Louisa May Alcott
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“We mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust, Maximus!”
– Gladiator (via vmel)
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herlagnolalia asked: Have you read Novel Of Cocaine/Cocaine Romance? If so, what did you think of it? The relationship between Vadim and his mother some what reminds me of my relationship with my mum, strangely… —- No I haven’t read it. Did you like it? maelie asked: I would actually like to commend you on posting the quote about Stephenie Meyer and...
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“Ladies & gentlemen… we are floating in space!”
– Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World (via quote-book)
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