I recently added a Daily Literary Quote widget to my iGoogle homepage, as you do. Literary quotes are like horoscopes — they might not be true, they might not make sense, but sometimes they resonate in a way that truthful, sensible statements simply cannot.

Here are some of the quotes that are currently making me go, “oh, damn. I feel you.”

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger than reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, & when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.  { Anaïs Nin }

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for. { Oscar Wilde }

Only the mediocre are always at their best.  { Jean Giraudoux }

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. { Colette }

Let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.  { George Bernard Shaw }

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.  { William Arthur Ward }

The best way to get approval is not to need it.  { Hugh Macleod }

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.  { Gore Vidal }

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. { Ayn Rand }

The best revenge is massive success. { Frank Sinatra }

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