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“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
― Albert Einstein

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“I have no use for people who exhibit manners.”
― Amy Vanderbilt

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
― Thurgood Marshall

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi