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  • #1
    Hermann Hesse
    “I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
    Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #2
    Hermann Hesse
    “Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.”
    Hermann Hesse , Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    “Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which begs the question of why you are an exception.”
    Al Stone, Talisman of El

  • #6
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #7
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis

  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Susan Ee
    “I never thought about it before, but I'm proud to be human. We're ever so flawed. We're frail, confused, violent, and we struggle with so many issues. But all in all, I'm proud to be a Daughter of Man.”
    Susan Ee, Angelfall

  • #11
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #12
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #13
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #14
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #15
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #16
    Maud Casey
    “I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
    Maud Casey

  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #18
    Marjane Satrapi
    “Life is too short to be lived badly.”
    Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

  • #19
    Tatiana de Rosnay
    “When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?”
    Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

  • #20
    Jojo Moyes
    “Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”
    Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

  • #21
    Hermann Hesse
    “So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #22
    Veronica Roth
    “I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care.

    "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell.

    She smiles. "I almost always wish that.”
    Veronica Roth, Allegiant

  • #23
    Vincent van Gogh
    “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #24
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    “If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”
    Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

  • #25
    Sophie Kinsella
    “All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. - Sam Roxton”
    Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

  • #26
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #27
    Donato Carrisi
    “Like the whole range of other human emotions, it's just a matter of chemistry. We are all nothing but machines made of flesh.”
    Donato Carrisi, The Whisperer



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