“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”— Michael Pollan, amazon.com
“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every nig…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”— Virgil, amazon.com
“There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Every one of us is like a man who sees things in a dream and thinks that he knows them perfectly and then wakes up to find that he knows nothing.”— Plato, amazon.com
“There is no passion without secrecy, this secrecy where everything is nonetheless said.”— Jacques Derrida, amazon.com
“The purpose of art is to transfer feeling from one person’s heart to another person’s heart.”— David Shields, amazon.com
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.com