Obvious State

"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt in...

"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoevs...

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...

"As soon as I can leave, I shall go to Paris." - George Sand A row a cafe chairs, good for people watching – or in this case, the mascarons that...

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections.  This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections.  This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of ...

"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life." - H. G. Wells I see The Time Machine as a sto...

"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illitera...

"For we have thought the longer thoughts, and gone the shorter way." - Ernest Hemingway From his poem Chapter Heading. In his earlier work, Hemi...

"The majority is never right." - Henrik Ibsen One bird leaves the flock, creating a simple equation: the individual is greater than the group. Ins...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau From his beloved book, Walden—a record of his communion with na...

TO LIVE DELIBERATELY Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForBy Henry David Thoreau  Illustrated by Evan Robertson  Henry David Thoreau dropped the g...

"The right time is any time that one is still lucky to have" - Henry James A calendar on its side transforms into an arrow. Time's ticking. Let's ...

"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville From Chapter 12 of his masterpiece, Moby Dick, in which we learn the origin ...

"I would prefer not to." - Herman Melville Bartleby is a mystery, one that has fascinated readers and literary critics alike. Is he a Christ figu...

"My soul has grown deep like the rivers." - Langston Hughes The river may have carried him to unfamiliar places, but he’s not adrift. • Pocket si...

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells Trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells knew what she stood for a...

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth on them." - Ida B. Wells • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon •...

"I was a flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me u...

"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen Are't we all, though? With any luck, it's the fault of a delicious read. • 11x14 inch art print with...

"I would rather have nothing but tea. " - Jane Austen Pray, coffee drinkers, do not trifle with a connoisseur of the finer beverage, lest you fin...

"Run mad as often as you choose" - Jane Austen Everyone needs to cut loose once in a while, to throw off the restraints (in this case, some seriou...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - John Keats Inspired by one of the most famous and hotly debated lines of verse in the English language, this ill...

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." - John Keats From his exquisite poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. Keats pushes all the right b...