The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamouring to be visible.

Vladimir Nabokov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick

A classic is a book that has never finished what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino

The Last Laugh

I made hay while the sun shone.

My work sold.

Now, if the harvest is over

And the world cold,

Give me the bonus of laughter

As I lose hold.

Sir John Betjeman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca the Younger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger

The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we achieve it.

Michelangelo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

I want by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all I am capable of becoming….This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it; it’s no longer so. I feel happy – deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield: Journal (1922) last entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard

I’ve dreamed in my life dreams that have stayed with me, even after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Brontë

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB