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#1

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly

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#2

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

334 likes

#3

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: classics, death, fate, greece, grief, wisdom

366 likes

#4

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley

tags: classics, education

442 likes

#5

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: classics, love

448 likes

#6

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: classics, inspirational

611 likes

#7

“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: classics, humor

703 likes

#8

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: classics, education

826 likes

#9

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers

1213 likes

#10

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: classics, love, obsession

1815 likes

#11

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: classics

1876 likes

#12

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

4706 likes

#13

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4764 likes

#14

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play

tags: books, classics

292 likes

#15

“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

tags: classics, greek-literature, mythology

256 likes

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