“A Man Who Does Not Think For Himself Does Not Think At All.”

“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)

“If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

“…dusk is falling, I love you.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters Summer 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Rilke (via loveage-moondream)

“Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?”

— Euripides, Medea

[He] felt that the murky twilight which was gradually seeping into the room was also slowly penetrating his body, transforming his blood into fog, and that he was powerless to stop the spell that was being cast on him by the twilight.

Vladimir Nabokov, Mary, 1926

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Ottis P. Lord written c. March 1878

“I wore my fairy dress of tulle and danced until midnight.”

— Anais Nin

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001