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

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.”
― Will Ferguson, Happiness

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

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

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?”
― Clive Cussler, Shock Wave

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
― Walt Disney

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Una buona reputazione professionale non è sempre garanzia di un intelletto equilibrato.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“Ma Gonzalo? Oh, il bel nome della vita! una continuità che s'adempie. Di nuovo le sembrò, dal terrazzo, di scorgere la curva del mondo: la spera dei lumi, a rivolversi; tra brume color pervinca disparivano incontro al sopore della notte. Sul mondo portatore di frumenti, e d'un canto, le quiete luminarie di mezza estate. Le sembrò di assistervi ancora, dalla terrazza di sua vita, oh!, ancora per un attimo, di far parte della calma sera. Una levità dolce. E, nel cielo alto, lo zaffiro dell'oceano: che avevano rimirato l'Alvise, a tremare, e Antoniotto di Noli, doppiando capi dalla realità senza nome incontro al sogno apparito degli arcipelaghi. Si sentì ripresa nell'evento, nel flusso antico della possibilità, della continuazione: come tutti, vicina a tutti.”
― Carlo Emilio Gadda, La cognizione del dolore

“Nel sogno c'è sempre qualcosa di assurdo e confuso, non ci si libera mai della vaga sensazione ch'è tutto falso, che un bel momento ci si dovrà svegliare.”
― Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

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

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy