"literature is my utopia." - helen keller
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
— H.P. Lovecraft (via pompouspaul)
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“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham
"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity……we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance."
— A. E. Newton (via bookstorecouture)
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"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."
— Jules Verne (via thewildtheinnocent)
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"You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
— John Green (via onedayofforever)
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"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence…The question is what can you make people believe that you have done?"
— Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (via itsfromabook)
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.” — Charles Bukowski
"I begin to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be."
— My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl (via teeaah)
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"If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. Its like fight club."
— John Green (via chronic-nostalgia)
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