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“We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.”

Men Life Life Is House Air He Man Rivers Towns Delusion Swim Sincerity Amused Dupes

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

Life Believe Persons Paper Towns Hipster Treacherous Margo Roth Spiegelman

Author:John Green

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

World Life Inspirational Hard Inspiration Paper Towns Leaving Inertia Hipster Nerdfighter Paper Books

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.”

People Way Life Needs Left Rooms Particular Comfortable Majors Consequence Towns Hotel Schemes Convenience Convenient Hotel Rooms Where You Live She Left Me

Author:Toni Morrison

“I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.”

Life Years Funny Blessing Humorous Towns Witty Sunday

Author:George Burns

“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”

Life Looks Sky Towns Down And These Days Hipster Margo Roth Spiegelman

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.”

Way Life Real Light Fall Imagine Towns Flood Falling Apart

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.”

Life Love Is United Fame Eternal Towns Burden Beloved

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.”

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

“Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.”

Life Should Doe Form Science Machines Towns Breaths Breathe Atmosphere

Book:Coningsby, etc

Source: Coningsby, etc

“An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.”

Life Persons Opportunity Challenges Wonderful Inspire Development Areas Towns Entrepreneur Metals Provoking Sculpture Housing Scrap Enterprising Decrepit Scrap Metal

Author:Jim Rohn

“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”

Life Long Stories Dies Hell Towns Hipster

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”

Thinking Life Has Beens Country Solitude Towns Slavery Green Command This Life Solitary Captains Coast Entrances Weariness Desolation Guinea Heaviness

Author:Herman Melville