#lit

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#business #concerned #far #fractions #individuals

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#creatures #little #machine #man #mysteries

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#carriage #could #death #held #i

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#anything #else #leaves #little #little time

I like good strong words that mean something… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #words #strong

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. ↗

— James Dickey

#i #poetry #tranquillity #want

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#congress #i #idiot #member #myself

I dwell in possibility. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#i #possibility

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hath #i #immortality #life #love

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#art #dazzling #glorious #level #literature