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"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The roaring twenties, when booze was illegal and...

"Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Truth may be stranger than fiction, but let's face it: fiction is fun. Re...

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...

"What am I doing here in this endless winter?" - Franz Kafka From his short, surrealist story, A Country Doctor. Although he died over a century a...

"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...

"One who has a why can bear almost any how" - Nietzsche From The Twilight of the Idols: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer First: How awesome is...

"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 •...

"The truth is simple, so we complicate the journey." - George Sand From her collected letters. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premi...

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"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...

"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...

"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...

"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 ...

This carefully crafted collection of Dickinson’s poems blends poetic verse and visual storytelling into a seamless narrative that shines a light on...

"Carpe Diem" - Horace Since the Roman poet Horace coined the phrase in 23 BC, carpe diem (“seize the day”) has become a rally cry to embrace life’...

"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...

"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...

"I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen The letter has arrived! But what fortune will it bring? What word? Happiness or ruin? • 11x14 inch ...

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

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen The opening...