“You Came Into My Life — Not As One Comes To Visit … But As One Comes To A Kingdom Where All The

“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

— J.D. Salinger  (via quotemadness)

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

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Anton Chekhov (b. 29 January 1860)

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot

“—I have a childlike heart”

— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quotespile)

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche