Marcus Aurelius
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. (Penguin Classics, October 31, 2006) Originally published 180 C.E Advertisements
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Oscar Wilde
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. ― Oscar Wilde
T. S. Eliot
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. — T. S. Eliot, from “Tradition and Individual Talent,” The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (Routledge, 1989)
Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ― Anne Frank
Thomas Mann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales. (Penguin Classics, May 1, 1999) Originally published 1911.
W.H. Auden
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. ― W.H. Auden
Simone de Beauvoir
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart. — Simone de Beauvoir
