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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by,
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
― Mother Teresa

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
― Mother Teresa

“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
― Mother Teresa

“Не е достатъчно да сме нещастни поотделно, за да бъдем щастливи заедно.”
― Ромен Гари, Clair de femme

“Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
― Shirley Hazzard

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.”
― Emily Dickinson, Dickinson: Poems

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.”
― Virginia Woolf

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”
― Walt Whitman

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

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth