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Literary Inspirational Quotes (2629)

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Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...
Rumi
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our nannas are losers.
Barbara Park
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, Let them eat cake.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
Hermann Hesse
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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Hermann Hesse
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. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
Hermann Hesse
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L’architecture est art de suggestion.
Daniel Pennac
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I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
Theodore Sturgeon
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This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
Rumi
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms yet, they testify to invisible love.
Rumi
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The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
Rumi
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A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.
Hermann Hesse
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .
Rumi
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The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
Rumi
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Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
Rumi
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Rumi
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