Kate Chopin
"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...
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"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...
View full details"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...
View full details"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 ...
View full details"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt in...
View full details"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The roaring twenties, when booze was illegal and...
View full details"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspecti...
View full details"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë Despite being the daughters of a vicar and growing up in a parsonage, Anne, Charlotte, ...
View full details"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...
View full details"We live in the flicker." - Joseph Conrad A lightning bolt splits the night, leaving a lasting impression before it fades into darkness. • 11x1...
View full details"I would always rather be happy than dignified." - Charlotte Brontë A cyclist makes her own path. From her novel Jane Eyre. • 11x14 inch art pr...
View full details"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott From her novel Work: A Story of Experience. • 11x14 inch art print ...
View full details"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust Some observations are so astute that once you rea...
View full details"I wonder what the machines will think." - Philip K. Dick Sometimes, surprisingly reasonable advice can be gleaned from a paranoid dystopian metac...
View full details"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. In our illustration, an ocean scene i...
View full details"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote. The maxim "know thys...
View full details"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...
View full details"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...
View full details"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoevs...
View full details"The libraries of the world are thrown open to me." - Mary Shelley From the novel The Last Man by Mary Shelley. • 11x14 inch art print with whi...
View full details"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...
View full details"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 •...
View full details"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...
View full details"He tried not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy This is one of the ...
View full details"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...
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