we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly… — Fuyumi Ono Copy Share Image
“Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Before he called me forth from the grave, Jesus wept. His was not the loud, frantic keening of the women who mourned… — Bodie And Brock Thoene Copy Share Image
“In order to elucidate especially and most clearly the origination of this error (...) let us imagine a man who, while standing… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I will fly away to them, to the royal birds, and they will beat me, because I, that am so ugly, dare… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called Le Vallage for the great number… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“As you can see,” Daisy said, “one glass is filled with soap water, one with clear, and one with blue laundry water.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“This is the mighty and branching tree called mythology which ramifies round the whole world whose remote branches under separate skies bear… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“[Adapted and condensed Valedictorian speech:] I'm going to ask that you seriously consider modeling your life, not in the manner of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image