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“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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

“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

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov