“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars”
The first moment I saw this picture I thought “Wow, she reminds me of Jo March!”
(Jo Seated on the Old Sofa by Norman Rockwell)
This is how the world ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot
Hogwarts
“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
Anais Nin
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life has many lessons, one just needs to pay attention to them.”
Henry David Thoreau
Anais Nin
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon, to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James
You must find time for reading
Reading…
“I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Borges
