Literature Quotes

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" "Abandon all hope, you who enter here" "The night is beautiful so the faces of my people" "To the last I grapple with thee from hell’s heart I stab at thee for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee" "Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" "If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays" "Reader, I married him" "Read in order to live" "The better a work is the more it attracts criticism" "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality" "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat" "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." "We live for books" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry"