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items From classic literature to self-help books, here I'm sharing the most striking ones to me. I don't always remember the plot exaclty, but I remember vividly how they made feel.
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Holistic beauty/self help
Classic literature
Holistic beauty/self help
Books on topics related to holistic wellbeing, green beauty, mindfulness, and personal development.
Flowerevolution: fanastic read and stunning imagery to understand the power of flowers
Katie Hess I Flower evolution
A must-read for anyone interested in holistic beauty
Renegade Beauty: Reveal Your Natural Radiance
Classic literature
Books that have left a mark on me, that are thought-provoking, superbly written, and audacious.
“HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, a...
Pygmalion - Georges Bernard Shaw
“You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...”
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"She was to know the pleasures of love ... She was entering something marvellous where everything would be passion, ecstasy, delirium."
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
Fahrenheit 451
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
“As far as responsibility goes, no one really wants it - but all of us are responsible to the community we live in & its laws. When the time comes to assume the responsibility of a home and children or business, this is the seeding of the boys fr...
In Cold Blood
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Animal Farm
“Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.”
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls who want everything to be prettified, even the horrible. In the name of philanthropy, imbecile crimi...
Les Diaboliques I Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Georges Orwell
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen