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“You are what you read.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
― Raymond Carver

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
― Edith Wharton

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.”
― Daniel Gilbert

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Darkness thickened and collapsed about him. Some of it never lifted again.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.”
― Tom Clancy

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz