Most weekdays I’ll be sharing new images and quotes that have inspired me. I’ll be posting the full set here each week to share the words and pictures that caught my eye this week.
Classic Quotes #41
Gustave Flaubert
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Leo Tolstoy
There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Simone Weil
Love is not consolation. It is light.
~ Simone Weil
Adrienne Rich
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our animal passion rooted in the city.
~ Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
Edith Wharton
Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.
~ Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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