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"Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: pride, reading, writers
71 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,019 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,679 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,466 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,024 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
8,982 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,044 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,252 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,049 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,164 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,094 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,552 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,085 people liked it

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
3,014 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
2,848 people liked it

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man
748 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,494 people liked it

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
1,145 people liked it

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

tags: family, first-sentence
167 people liked it

"If you're going to read this, don't bother."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

tags: first-sentence, reading
66 people liked it

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: first-sentence
88 people liked it

"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: first-sentence
19 people liked it

"It was a pleasure to burn."
— Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

tags: first-sentence
41 people liked it

"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. "
— Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits)

tags: first-sentence
5 people liked it

"I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores."
— Mario Vargas Llosa (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel)

tags: first-sentence
4 people liked it

"...Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life
160 people liked it

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life, memories
132 people liked it

"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
— Gabriel García Márquez

77 people liked it

"Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: colombia, español, first, latin-america, line, spanish
27 people liked it

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