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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“We've learnt to appreciate and respect and love someone who's different from us. It is very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard, and you helped us to do that.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“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

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“Ma pensaci un attimo. Siamo nell'era dei reality show, dei talk show, dei talent show. E tutti ci tengono a darti la loro opinione. Non ho mai sentito nessuno, in pubblico, dire "non mi esprimo perché di questo argomento non ci capisco una mazza". Prima, magari, premettono che sono ignoranti, poi ti danno la loro opinione lo stesso. A farci caso, l'unico personaggio televisivo a cui non ho mai sentito dire una parola è Maggie Simpson. Si sta perdendo il valore intrinseco del silenzio.”
― Marco Malvaldi, Argento vivo

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“After years in the Chinese workforce, I had developed an emotional attachment to money. My earnings were my hard work and long hours; my savings were comforts deferred.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Laurent could inspire homicidal tendencies simply by breathing.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince

“Stop enjoying yourself," Damen murmured. "We're going to be killed, any minute."
"Giant animal," said Laurent.
"Stop it.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode, the opposite. I like writers who deal with ambiguities, biased viewpoint and subjective truth; I like the writing to be clean but everything behind the writing to be complex. I like to feel that there are things going on in the spaces and behind the lines.”
― S.U. Pacat