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

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
― Arthur Miller

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
― Cat Cora

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.”
― Ken Jennings

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound.
You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart.
You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like. ”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
― Harriet Martineau

“The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.”
― Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Grande Sertao: Veredas

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”
― Alexander Trocchi