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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”
― Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper

“estou na vida como numa varanda. Vejo na rua as pessoas passarem com as suas tragédias íntimas. Vejo-as nascer e morrer. Nestas terras ácidas a natureza conspira contra nós. Um homem morre, desaparece, e logo a sua obra inteira se corrói e se corrompe e se desfaz. Os palácio de hoje amanhã serão ruínas. Uma panela de sopa, deixada ao ar, fermenta numa única noite. Os fungos crescem nos armários como plantas malignas e se os deixarmos ocupam inteiramente os quartos e as casas. A própria memória rapidamente se dissolve.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, Nação Crioula

“Ande como se o chão estivesse repleto de sons de flauta...”
― Carlos Drummond de Andrade

“Perder tempo em aprender coisas que não interessam, priva-nos de descobrir coisas interessantes.”
― Carlos Drummond de Andrade

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

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

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

“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

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

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

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

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

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard