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“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Gli alcolisti costruiscono difese come gli olandesi fabbricano dighe. Ho passato i primi dodici anni di matrimonio assicurando a me stesso che «semplicemente mi piaceva bere». Ero addirittura ricorso all'universalmente nota Giustificazione Hemingway. Pur mai esposta con chiarezza (farlo sarebbe stato da femminucce), si sintetizza così: in quanto scrittore, sono molto sensibile, ma da uomo vero non devo soccombere a questo lato della mia natura. Sarebbe un comportamento da mammolette. E quindi bevo. In caso contrario, come potrei affrontare l'orrore esistenziale che mi soffoca e continuare a scrivere? E poi, insomma, sono capace di reggere un paio di bicchieri. Gli uomini veri ci riescono sempre.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“«Dovunque andrai, ti si richiederà di fare qualcosa di sbagliato. È la condizione fondamentale della vita essere costretti a far violenza alla propria personalità. Prima o poi, tutte le creature viventi devono farlo. È l’ombra estrema, il difetto della creazione; è la maledizione che si compie, la maledizione che si nutre della vita. In tutto l’universo.»”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“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

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

“L’Homme qui rit : « La vie n’est qu’une longue perte de tout ce qu’on aime. »”
― Karine Tuil, Les Choses humaines

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Nature gives reproductive rights at puberty.
The same oppressors that make it hard to raise kids by
limiting resources, make it hard to make personal choices.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads & Departamental Ditties and Ballads

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“I fear a Man of frugal speech -
I fear a Silent Man -
Haranguer - I can overtake -
Or Babbler - entertain -

But He who weigheth - While the Rest -
Expend their furthest pound -
Of this Man - I am wary -
I fear that He is Grand -”
― Emily Dickinson

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Si usa uno specchio di vetro per guardare il viso; e si usano le opere d’arte per guardare la propria anima.”
― George Bernard Shaw