A Quote Extravaganza

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting." ~ John Green

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Seraphine Saintclair, “Dreams of Dandelion”

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Selected Letters

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“I wanted it so much. I don’t know why I wanted it so much.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Cat in the Rain

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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

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— Joseph Brodsky, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir

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“I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.”

—

Marguerite Duras (b. 4 April 1914)

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“I fall in love with ideas and fantasies rather than whole beings and then I sit here and wonder why I’m still alone. It’s because I don’t f*cking pay attention. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow that today falls through the cracks.”

— Ryan O'Connell

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Marisa Walz, from her book titled "Good Intentions," originally published in February 2026

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Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 1 April 1925, from The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1923-1927

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Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper-Chekhova featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

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Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

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“My crime was feeling everything too deeply, my punishment was surviving it.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Mary Oliver, from "Spring" in House of Light: Poems

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Sara Torres, from her novel titled "X Is Where I Am," orginally published in March 2026

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Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vita Sackville-West, dated 7 October 1928, from Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, dated 23 December 1881

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Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems