NONSENSICAL

One is never intrinsically strong, just by nature. You must have been through something. Strength has to be acquired. You don’t know how you acquire it. Suddenly you’re standing there and things that are deadly to others are no longer a danger to you.

—Alfred Döblin  (via paperlover)

(Source: shootingstarsandfallingobjects, via teachingliteracy)

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter–’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

—Mark Twain (via quote-book)

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

—Winston Churchill  (via creatingaquietmind, brokenmachine) (via teachingliteracy)

come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. for you have a library and a good one. a working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

—virginia woolf (via roadtojoy)

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