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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Otsuichi
    “My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.”
    Otsuichi, Zoo

  • #5
    “Au début, je l'ai lu par curiosité, avec le sentiment de commettre une simple indiscrétion. Sans le savoir, j'étais comme la femme de Barbe-Bleue: j'ignorais quel monstrueux placard je venais d'ouvrir. Ce récit, je l'ai lu et relu. Je m'en suis remplie jusqu'a la nausée, sans faiblir.
    Pour comprendre...
    Pour comprendre quoi?”
    Jean Molla, Sobibor

  • #6
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #7
    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #10
    Paulo Coelho
    “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #11
    Paulo Coelho
    “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #13
    Paulo Coelho
    “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #14
    Paulo Coelho
    “Maktub" (It is written.)”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #15
    Yōko Ogawa
    “He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world”
    Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
    tags: love

  • #16
    Yōko Ogawa
    “Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.”
    Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

  • #17
    Yōko Ogawa
    “Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.”
    Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

  • #18
    Yōko Ogawa
    “Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it”
    Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

  • #19
    Yōko Ogawa
    “They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.”
    Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
    tags: summer

  • #20
    Yōko Ogawa
    “It’s the young who have to break the old records. That’s the way the world works,”
    Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

  • #21
    Yōko Ogawa
    “He had a special feeling for what he called the “correct miscalculation,” for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.”
    Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

  • #22
    Stefan Zweig
    “Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
    Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

  • #23
    Stefan Zweig
    “We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
    Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

  • #24
    Trung Le Nguyen
    “Joy is a precious thing. And precious things are few. So we learn to hold on to them.”
    Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

  • #25
    Ha Il-kwon
    “Maybe he just didn't want to become an "adult". Maybe he was scared and didn't want to be the "adult" that everybody has to become. So he decided to stay a child forever. A child who believes in magic, no matter what.”
    Ha Il-kwon, Annarasumanara

  • #26
    Ha Il-kwon
    “Do you believe in magic?" -R,Annarasumanara”
    Ha Il-Kwon



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