“I only surround myself with people who I find intellectually stimulating.”
—My Girl, 1991
January 2012
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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
—Louisa May Alcott
“You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”
—Jeffrey Eugenides
“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
—The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
—Sylvia Plath
“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”
—Alain de Botton
