I’m a very romantic person. Romanticizing my life has become a habit and I try to incorporate it into every single day. There are two things in this world that help me do this: books and the beautiful quotes hidden inside them. There’s nothing more beautiful than being completely immersed and absorbed in literature and stumbling upon a quote that makes your heart beat a bit faster. Here are the top ten most beautiful quotes I have ever read. Maybe you know them, maybe you don’t. But I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
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“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.” (Louisa May Alcott, Little Women)
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“No, I’m a romantic — a sentimental person thinks things will last — a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise)
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“From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.” (Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar)
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“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
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“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I love and admire you.” (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice)
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“Perhaps in death, I receive something I never had in life – I hold a sanctuary in the hearts of those I care for.” (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
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“But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste!” (André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name)
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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” (Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights)
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“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)
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“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.” (E. Lockhart, We Were Liars)