57th.

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread." - Richard Wright




Photo is "Starving Artist" - from GrayDay.

56th.

"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires." - William Shakespeare




Photo is "Oh the Stars" - from auto-da-fe.

55th.

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." - Toni Morrison




Photo is "Winter Wonderland" - from nuaHs.

54th.

"You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live." - Joan Baez




Photo is "No Reason to Live" - from valkirye.

53rd.

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual." - Octavio Paz




Photo is "I Surrender" - from SnowHunter.

52nd.

"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back." - Erica Jong




Photo is "Fear" - from ratpat13.

51st.

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." - Jack Kerouac




Photo is "Confusion" - from Twin Angels 2007.