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13 Oct 2024, 8:54 am

This thread is about sharing quotes or passages from books that have been especially meaningful to you personally. Feel free to share whatever, including stuff from children’s books, plays, poems, or any other published writing.


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13 Oct 2024, 9:31 am

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

— Tennyson’s “Ulysses”


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13 Oct 2024, 9:48 am

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away - Henry David Thoreau



I am not sure if this is from a book or just one of his sayings



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13 Oct 2024, 9:53 am

^ :heart:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep.”

Both of these passages from Walden were there for me during some of the darkest times of my life.


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13 Oct 2024, 6:20 pm

"One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries." -- Winnie the Pooh


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13 Oct 2024, 9:14 pm

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”

Anne of Green Gables


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13 Oct 2024, 9:33 pm

“Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.”

Lovecraft - The call of Cthulhu



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14 Oct 2024, 11:33 am

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

— Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird”


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16 Oct 2024, 6:08 pm

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

— Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”


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16 Oct 2024, 6:12 pm

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest


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17 Oct 2024, 11:58 am

I yam what I yam - Popeye the Sailor



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17 Oct 2024, 12:46 pm

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

Lord of the Rings


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19 Oct 2024, 1:34 pm

“Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.”

— Saint-Exupéry, Le petit prince


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19 Oct 2024, 3:26 pm

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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.


Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land



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19 Oct 2024, 4:10 pm

When I’m in a nihilistic mood:

“Comme si cette grande colère m'avait purgé du mal, vidé d'espoir, devant cette nuit chargée de signes et d'étoiles, je m'ouvrais pour la première fois à la tendre indifférence du monde.”

—Albert Camus, L’étranger

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Macbeth


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20 Oct 2024, 4:32 pm

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

— Emily Dickinson


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