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“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

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

“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy”
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

“অমৃত জিনিসটা রসের মধ্যে নাই, রসবোধের মধ্যেই আছে।”
― Rabindranath Tagore, My Reminiscences illustrated: By Rabindranath Tagore

“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh