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“We're all whores, sooner or later.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The dead never go to their own funeral.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Even a fool may be wise after the event.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?”
― Ben Okri, The Age of Magic

“Do you know what the luckiest thing is?’
‘No.’
‘It is to be at home everywhere.”
― Ben Okri, The Age of Magic

“Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.”
― Ben Okri, The Age of Magic

“He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.”
― Ben Okri, The Age of Magic

“When we’ve been travelling around I’ve often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I’ve seen everything I’ve decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.”
― Ben Okri, The Age of Magic

“I wasn't lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world. If anything, because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more aware of and connected to the seven billion other people who call it home.”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. ”
― Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

“It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.”
― Matthew Quick, Boy21

“If you don’t have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption