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“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard, so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Кожному властиво вважати себе за цілком виключне явище під сонцем і місяцем.”
― Валер'ян Підмогильний, Місто

“It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not lawtype honest - I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment - but unto-thyself-type honest. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“I've been sitting here and thinking about God. I don't think I believe in God any more. It is not only me, I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war. The Anne Franks. And back through history. What I feel I know now is that God doesn't intervene. He lets us suffer. If you pray for liberty then you may get relief just because you pray, or because things happen anyhow which bring you liberty. But God can't hear. There's nothing human like hearing or seeing or pitying or helping about him. I mean perhaps God has created the world and the fundamental laws of matter and evolution. But he can't care about the individuals. He's planned it so some individuals are happy, some sad, some lucky, some not. Who is sad, who is not, he doesn't know, and he doesn't care. So he doesn't exist, really.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

“Waiting in fear is surely one of the most awful of human tribulations.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Было бы совсем невозможно жить, если бы человек мог вполне точно и определенно знать день и час, когда умрет.”
― Леонид Андреев, Рассказ о семи повешенных

“Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space. Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice, we would have nothing.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Some day our cities would open up and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that we’re allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“О, зачем человек не бессмертен? Зачем мозговые центры и извилины, зачем зрение, речь, самочувствие, гений, если всему этому суждено уйти в почву и в конце концов охладеть вместе с земною корой, а потом миллионы лет без смысла и без цели носиться с землей вокруг солнца? Для того чтобы охладеть и потом носиться, совсем не нужно извлекать из небытия человека с его высоким, почти божеским умом и потом, словно в насмешку, превращать его в глину.”
― Anton Chekhov, Палата № 6. Рассказы

“Истинное счастие невозможно без одиночества.”
― Anton Chekhov, Палата № 6. Рассказы

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons