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Re: What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations require

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You can find magic wherever you look
Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Dr. Seuss
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"I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
T S Eliot - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
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As if you could kill time without injurying eternity.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden
That sentence gave me chills.

Another favorite quote is from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
We live, as we dream - alone.
I suppose I have a thing for dark moments in writing. I first found this is in Edgar Allen Poe's How to Write a Blackwood Article and then again in Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote.
Come quickly, O death! but be sure and don't let me see you coming, lest the pleasure I shall feel at your appearance should unfortunately bring me back to life again.
After doing some research, although Poe attribute this poem to Miguel Cervantes and Don Quixote, it was actually written by El Comendador Juan Escrivá in his work Cancion.
Ven muerte tan escondida
que no te sienta comigo,
porqu’ el gozo de contigo
no me torne a dar la vida.

Ven como rayo que hiere,
que hasta que ha herido
no se siente su ruydo
por mejor herir do quiere:
assi sea tu venida,
si no, desde aqui me obligo
qu’ el gozo que aure contigo
me dara de nuevo vida.
Which translates to:
Come death and be concealed
so that I do not sense you with me,
lest the solace of your presence be
the reason I don’t yield.

Come like a ripping bolt
that up till the time of its slash
one feels no sense of the gash
to render best its jolt:
so be your arrival,
if not, I can only fear
that the joy of your being near
will ensure my survival.
Sorry for the long post!
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"But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 6, Lewis Carroll
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"Kings and conquerors rise and fall and leave nothing but a few crumbling statues in a desert, but a few young men, labouring in a workshop, change the way the world works."
-Terry Pratchett
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Hi

This is my favorite one
Where we are going we don't need roads
Emmett Brown, Back to the Future 1, 1985
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ellie_calvin wrote: Another favorite quote is from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
We live, as we dream - alone.
Oh yes! There are so many beautiful quotes in "Heart of Darkness." Thrilled to see someone else loves one or two in that little big book.

My recent favorite would be from John Le Carré's "The Night Manager:"
And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackness, that his life has consisted of a run of rehearsals for a play he had failed to take part in. And that what he needed to do from now on, if there was going to be a now on, was abandon his morbid quest for order and treat himself to a little chaos, on the grounds that while order was demonstrably no substitute for happiness, chaos might open the way to it.
It is a fancy English way of saying "go ahead and lavish in some risks in life," because tidiness and schedules sure aren't fun.
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Another favourite - often quoted! "O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been/cool'd a long age in the deep-delvéd earth . . . With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,/and purple stainéd mouth;" Keats - Ode to a Nightingale.
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"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
- from Jane Eyre
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I can survive without you, but it's only that. Surviving. I want to live.
said by Noelle to Jasper in Kit Rocha's Beyond Shame
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“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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"How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness."

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What is grief, if not love persevering?

Grief is just love with no place to go.
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"Insist on yourself; Never Imitate"- Emerson
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Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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