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“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.”
― Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Dear molly,
Watching over Fred like you have been watching over my Harry all these years.
Love,
Lily”
― JK Rowling