๐ฌ Quotes
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"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
โ Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie Flagg
"I may be old, but Iโm not dead. And Iโve got a lot of stories left in me."
โ Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie Flagg
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
โ Hound of the Baskervilles Annotated Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."
โ Hound of the Baskervilles Annotated Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"
โ Hound of the Baskervilles Annotated Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle
"The shadows of the moon-lit moor become ghosts of our own making."
โ Hound of the Baskervilles Annotated Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is a singular thing that the more mysterious a matter is, the less it should be regarded as a mystery."
โ Hound of the Baskervilles Annotated Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle
"The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm."
โ Hound of the Baskervilles Annotated Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
โ Leaves of Grass - Illustrated Editionby Walt Whitman
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
โ Leaves of Grass - Illustrated Editionby Walt Whitman
"All truths wait in all things, they neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, they do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon."
โ Leaves of Grass - Illustrated Editionby Walt Whitman
"You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books."
โ Leaves of Grass - Illustrated Editionby Walt Whitman
"The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder."
โ Sophie's Worldby Jostein Gaarder
"To be a person is to be part of a mysterious process. We are not just spectators, but actors in the play."
โ Sophie's Worldby Jostein Gaarder
"A white rabbit is being pulled out of a top hat. Because we are small creatures, we climb up the fine hairs of the fur to get a better view, but we are too small to see the magician."
โ Sophie's Worldby Jostein Gaarder
"Perhaps the world is a dream, and we are merely the figures that the dreamer is imagining."
โ Sophie's Worldby Jostein Gaarder
"Whatever we see, we see because of the way our minds are structured. We are wearing tinted glasses that we can never take off."
โ Sophie's Worldby Jostein Gaarder
"If human brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we would be so simple that we couldn't."
โ Sophie's Worldby Jostein Gaarder
"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings."
โ Awakening, The [EasyRead Large Edition]by Kate Chopin