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  • #1
    عطار نیشابوری
    “The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
    Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
    The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
    Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.”
    Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār, The Conference of the Birds

  • #2
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

  • #3
    Steve Toltz
    “Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.”
    Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

  • #4
    Steve Toltz
    “I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
    Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

  • #5
    Steve Toltz
    “Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?”
    Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

  • #6
    Steve Toltz
    “Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.”
    Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

  • #7
    Steve Toltz
    “Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.”
    Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

  • #8
    Steve Toltz
    “People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.”
    Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

  • #9
    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
    Henry Thomas Buckle

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #12
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #13
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #15
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #16
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov



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