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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
― Pauline Kael

“أمرين سيجعلوك أكثر حكمة :الكتب التي تقرؤها والأشخاص الذين تلتقي بهم.”
― أحمد الشقيري

“اذا كانت المرأة درست,تزوجت,حبت,اخلصت,حملت,انجبت,ارضعت,ربت,عملت,تحملت قلق وخوف,وكانت في الاخر بنصف عقل فكيف لو كان عقلها كامل؟”
― أحمد الشقيري

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

“The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost