“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”— John Knowles, amazon.com
“Between the hammers our hearts endure, just as the tongue does between the teeth and, despite that, still is able to praise.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”— Halldór Laxness, amazon.com
“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled.”— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, amazon.com
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.’”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com