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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
― Carl Hiaasen

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard