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

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”
― Giorgio Vasari

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

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

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild