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

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

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made my life wonderful, its made life possible, when I rub my hands against each other in the middle of winter I am warming myself with the friction of YES and NO, when I clap my hands I am showing my appreciation through the uniting and parting of YES and NO, I signify "book" by peeling open my hands, every book, for me, is the balance of YES and NO, even this one, my last one, especially this one. Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

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

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

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

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
― Emile Zola

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Despair has its own calms.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering