That’s usually what makes people love any book: They believe the story that they are reading is actually about them.
Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl (via heyireadbooks)
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via petalsquotesandthorns)
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"She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures--a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subject."
