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  • #1
    Jack London
    “Lanciò un'occhiata all'amico che leggeva la lettera e vide i libri sul tavolo. Nei suoi occhi apparvero nostalgia e avidità, come l'avidità appare negli occhi dell'affamato alla vista del cibo.”
    Jack London, Martin Eden
    tags: books

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #6
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson

  • #7
    David Benioff
    “I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
    David Benioff, City of Thieves

  • #8
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #9
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #10
    John Burroughs
    “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
    John Burroughs

  • #11
    Richard Llewellyn
    “O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
    Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

  • #12
    Aphra Behn
    “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
    Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance

  • #13
    Edith Sitwell
    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #14
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #15
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #16
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Questo operaio analfabeta, che quando scriveva spezzava le penne con la sua foga impaziente, era sopraffatto, come i primi uomini sottrattisi alla condizione di scimmia, o come i grandi filosofi, dai problemi fondamentali della vita, e li viveva come necessità immediate e urgenti. Come un bambino, vedeva anche lui tutte le cose per la prima volta, e si stupiva continuamente, e faceva domande, e tutto gli sembrava un miracolo, e ogni mattina quando apriva gli occhi e vedeva gli alberi, il mare, le pietre, un uccello, rimaneva a bocca spalancata. Cos'è questo miracolo? gridava. Che cosa vuol dire albero, mare, pietra, uccello?”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #17
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  • #18
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #19
    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

  • #20
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #21
    Jules Renard
    “The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
    Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

  • #22
    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #25
    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    Richard Hughes

  • #26
    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

  • #27
    Jerome K. Jerome
    “Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
    Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

  • #28
    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #29
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #30
    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    Joseph Brodsky



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