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“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Nothing in Christianity is original.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”
― Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

“You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.”
― Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.”
― Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033

“In Russia they have a strange disease. It makes membrane grow across the sick person's throat, and they start to choke. there's less and less air until they eventually die. They treat it with a strange gizmo, A little silver tube. the membrane can't tolerate silver. The healer inserts the little silver tube in the patient's throat and he breaths through it until it gets over the illness. You're my little silver tube. With you, I have started breathing.”
― Dmitry Glukhovsky, FUTU.RE

“Karta, kuri dabar žengia į gyvenimą, dar matys daug blogio: tingėjimą, tamsumą, emocinį nekultūringumą ir primityvumą, estetinį skurdą, prietarus, egoizmą, instinkto dominavimą prieš kilnų pareigos jausmą - visa tai, deja, tebesupa mus.”
― Suchomlinskis V.

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
― Karl Marx

“Aš bjaurus, bet aš galiu nupirkti gražiausią moterį. Vadinasi, aš nesu bjaurus, nes bjaurumo poveikį, jo atbaidančią jėgą panaikina pinigai. Tegu aš - pagal savo individualybę - luošas, bet pinigai man suteikia 24 kojas. Vadinasi, aš nesu luošas. Aš blogas, nedoras, nesąžiningas, menko proto žmogus, bet pinigai gerbiami, vadinasi, gerbiamas jų savininkas. Pinigai yra didžiausias gėris - vadinasi, geras ir jų savininkas. Be to, pinigai išvaduoja mane nuo vargo būti nedoram, - todėl ir anksto manoma, jog aš doras.”
― Karl Marx

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr