1401st.

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka


Photo is "Obsessions" - from manuelestheim.

1400th.

"When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous." - Ernest Hemingway


Photo is "Evolve Outside" - from Saintiscariot.

1399th.

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C.S. Lewis


Photo is "Russian Literature" - from archanN.

1398th.

"Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; thing they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released." - Natalie Goldberg


Photo is "Obsession" - from Miss--Dee.

1397th.

"I have never understood people who don't have bookshelves." - George Plimpton


Photo is "Bookshelves" - from morba.

1396th.

"She's like smoke: you think you're seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her, there's nothing there." - Ryu Murakami


Photo is "Smoke" - from boing-boing.

1395th.

"Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe and not what others believe." - Barbara De Angelis


Photo is "Human Integrity" - from davespertine.