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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”
― Mario Puzo

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“As long as I'm with you, I know exactly who I am.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“...what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“எல்லையற்ற தூரிகையொன்றின் நுனியில்
சொட்டி நிற்கும் கரும்சாயம்
இந்த இரவு.”
― Jeyamohan, இரவு / Iravu

“தமிழ்நாடு முழுக்க முந்நூறு வருஷம் தெலுங்கர்களோட ஆட்சியிலே இருந்திருக்கு. மன்னர்கள் மட்டும் தெலுங்கு இல்லை. கிட்டத்தட்ட பெருவாரியான ஜனங்களும் அங்கேயிருந்து வந்து தமிழ்நாடு முழுக்க பரவியிருக்காங்க. அவங்க தமிழை தெலுங்கு உச்சரிப்புக்கு மாத்திட்டாங்க. அதுக்கு முன்னாடி தமிழ் கேக்கிறதுக்கு மலையாளம் மாதிரித்தான் இருந்திருக்கும், தெலுங்கு ஆதிக்கம் இல்லாத இடங்களிலே இருக்கிற பழமையான தமிழ் அப்டியே மலையாள ஓசையோடதான் இருக்கு. ஃபர் எக்ஸாம்பிள் தெற்கு திருவிதாங்கூர். ஐ மீன், கன்யாகுமாரி ஜில்லா பாஷை. அப்றம் ஸ்ரீலங்காத் தமிழ். அப்றம் மேற்குமலைகளிலே இருக்கிற டிரைப்ஸ் பேசற தமிழ்.”
― Jeyamohan, இரவு / Iravu