#literature quotes

Holy, a lover holding the body of a lover…

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“Everything I know, I know because of love.”  ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace...

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina...

“Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you ...

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray...

When Franz Kafka said You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love, and Richard Jackson said ...

if you’re supposed catch more flies with honey, what does it mean that I catch gnats with sliced-up peaches? or that my ...

            i would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. for beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which ...