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“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to forgive, to pardon, to forgo vengeance and violence. It's the weak man that must prove himself such.”
― A.C. Gaughen, Lady Thief

“Your power, your great gift, is that you never give up. When something fails you make a new plan, and another, and another. You never accept defeat. You never give up.”
― A.C. Gaughen, Lady Thief

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable